Others are making that connection too!
Fidel, Saddam and Hugo --An improbable but growing friendship of three military revolutionaries -- The improbable but growing friendship of three military revolutionaries - Fidel Castro of Cuba, Saddam Hussein of Iraq and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela - poses a challenge to U.S. interests and to President-elect George W. Bush. It is a friendship with considerable power: Venezuela and Iraq are among the top 10 oil exporters. Cuba is a beneficiary of their largesse and, in Venezuela's case, a mentor of revolution.
(November 22, 2001) -Demonstrators clash in Venezuelan riots--Venezuela's largest opposition party, the centrist Democratic Action, convened the march to protest the left-leaning Chavez's use of special legislative powers to decree far-reaching economic reforms without consultation.
"Our principal weapon is our right to demonstrate against this pitiful situation which is dragging Venezuela through the dirt, humiliated and discredited not only at home but abroad as well," said Democratic Action politician Henry Ramos.
The march quickly deteriorated into chaos as supporters of Chavez's Fifth Republic Movement or MVR tried to block its passage toward Congress. Stores closed as tear gas filled the streets, and the metropolitan police, controlled by opposition Mayor Alfredo Pena, fired on the government loyalists.
workers of the world unite!......uuuh, nevermind, we tried that, it didn't work....
workers of cuba! pretend to work! we'll pretend to pay you!