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September 7, 2009 By Fausta

Hugo goes to Venice UPDATED with photos

UPDATE
Photos, via Noticias 24

Hugo and Oliver both wore matching outfits. Sweet!

Italy Venice Film Festival South of the Border

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Oliver Stone, whose career is way beyond salvation at this point, has made a propaganda movie about Hugo Chavez titled South of the Border, which gives us a chance to see Hugo break and fall off a little kid’s bike.

Stone invited Chavez to go to the Venice Film Festival, where South of the Border will premiere outside of competition.

Well, what is a fashionable traveling tyrant to do?

Chavez has now taken time off his tour of Libya, Algeria, Syria, Iran, Belarus and Russia and headed to Venice

The leftist leader was expected to walk down the red carpet at around 5:00 pm (1500 GMT) to attend the official screening of “South of the Border”

As a worthy Communist, Hugo travels in style:

His entourage has taken over the entire third floor of the luxury Hotel des Bains on the Lido near the festival venue, a Venezuelan journalist told AFP, adding that Chavez was under the protection of 26 bodyguards.

That’s four bodyguards short of Hugo’s other buddy and fellow fashionable traveling tyrant Muammar al-Qaddafi, who pitches his tent (except for New Jersey) with thirty female virgin bodyguards. There is no information available on the gender or purity of Hugo’s bodyguards.

I can’t decide whether the late Thomas Mann (since Mann’s character Gustav von Aschenbach stayed at the Hotel des Bains on the Lido) or the surgically-altered Joan Rivers would be the most appropriate person to review Hugo’s stay, but will post photos of Hugo on the red carpet once I find them.

michaelmoooreVeniceWhile in Venice, Hugo and Oliver may have a chance to get together with fellow traveler Michael Moore and deplore capitalism

Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.

Because nothing spells sincerity as bemoaning riches in the style one has become accustomed to while at one of the word’s premiere luxury settings.

Update 2
Venice Film Festival: A Movie Star Reception For Hugo Chavez

Update, Tuesday, 8 September
What did I tell you? Hugo meets Michael

Drooling on the lens of his Sincerity-cam

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Filed Under: Communism, entertainment, films, Hugo Chavez, Michael Moore, movies, Venezuela Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Oliver Stone, South of the Border, Venice, Venice Film Festival

Comments

  1. Kathy says

    September 7, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    I cannot believe Michael Moore has the nerve to complain about capitalism, the very same system that filled his pockets. How can a rich guy complain about capitalism? He is the very definition capitalist pig made manifest. His position is ridiculously insincere. Basically he’s just another socialist control freak who embraces government corruption and hates the rest of us to have freedom to live our lives that way we want to.

  2. Pat Patterson says

    September 7, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    There is a rumour that even the festival organizers drew the line at Chavez strolling along the beach in the buff. Something about scaring the little kids!

  3. Constant Gina says

    September 7, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    not to be right winged but everyone that stays in power forever is a dictator…

  4. lifeofajaybird says

    September 8, 2009 at 12:13 am

    Just looked up the rates at the hotel Hugo is staying at. Hope he got a special rate for the floor. A single runs around 1200 us dollars a night. How many rooms on a floor? I’m sure the chavistas would be proud!

  5. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 6:49 am

    I’m not really sure WTF are you on about. “Constant Gina”…I’m not entirely sure that you know what you are talking about…my Queen has been in power for some time and if I were to speak out against her It is real that I could find my self in gaol for the rest of my life. Help me Boxer Melbourne!!!

  6. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 6:51 am

    queen elizibeth has a lot of power

  7. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 6:55 am

    the world is f’n changing

    Chavez has introduced ENDOGENOUS devlopment

  8. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 6:57 am

    MY CROWN HAS BEEN IN POWER “FOR EVER” this predates Stalin….I have some curious questions for you

  9. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 6:59 am

    btw ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT “ROCKS”

  10. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 7:12 am

    trust me Cuba found the world 1st monoclonal-antibody through pure science, do you/we need down grade them any more..this is endogenous development!!

    ENDOGENOUS DEVELOPMENT ROCKS….MIGHT i GIVE YOU A COLLAGE OF SCIENCE…….YOU’LL LOVE IT

    THERA CIM IT, LOVES ME. WHY CAN’T IT BE FREE?
    IF YOU TOUCH CHILDREN SIMPLY LET IT BE,
    I WILL KILL THEE,
    I ONCE HAD MSN BUT IT WAS CUT FROM ME!!
    WHAT DEGREE DOES IT TAKE TO BE FREE?

  11. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 7:16 am

    CONTEMPORARY AND ABSTRACT…..COOL CATS

  12. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 7:23 am

    YOU’LL NEVER KNOW!!

  13. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 7:26 am

    you have no idea. Hugo will go everywher and yoiu will ignore him….it is over for the capitalist south….face it!!1

  14. boxer says

    September 8, 2009 at 7:27 am

    cool cats….where are you at??

  15. Fausta says

    September 8, 2009 at 7:30 am

    Keep your shirt on, Boxer

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