Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR) co-director Mark Weisbrot writes: "Viva Chavez," shouted Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, as the team celebrated its World Series sweep last week.
Guillen is Venezuelan, and a national hero in this country of 25 million people who seem to believe that they too, along with Chicagoans, have won the World Series.
His cheer for the country's leftist President Hugo Chavez might have caused some reaction just a year or two ago ... but these days it went largely unnoticed, despite the continuing hostility between the Chavez government and the Bush administration.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=46648
Another recent Guillen comment that gave fellow Venezuelans the shivers was in response to his appearance on the weekly radio program of President Hugo Chavez. Afterward, Guillen talked about how he admired Chavez but that "not too many people like the president" and that his mother was going to be mad at him for expressing his support.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0510240242oct24,0,1894713.story
If not sucking, it's rubbing his fanny at the very least.
I don't think the Tribune is going to say anything positive about Ozzie.