Wonder Twin powers... activate!
In a bold, unexpected move, Hugo Chavez and Cindy Sheehan have aligned to oppose President Bush.
From Yahoo! News:
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's left-wing president, Hugo Chavez, joined U.S. anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan on Sunday to attack President George W. Bush and the Iraq war at the close of the World Social Forum.
Chavez, a former soldier known by his supporters as "El Comandante," has become a voice for many opponents of Washington who are drawn by his self-styled socialist revolution and his close alliance with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
"Enough of imperialist aggression. We must tell the world, down with the U.S. empire," Chavez said hugging Sheehan, whose son died in the Iraq war, and the widow of Puerto Rican independence activist Filiberto Ojeda Rios, who was killed in a gunfight with police last year.
"We have to bury imperialism this century. Cindy, we are with you in your fight," he said on his regular Sunday television broadcast.
U.S. relations with Venezuela have become increasingly antagonistic as Chavez campaigns against U.S. free-market policies in South America and Washington portrays him as an anti-democratic threat to regional stability.
Sheehan was the latest U.S. activist to appear on Chavez's Sunday program, where he holds court for five to six hours on topics from baseball and his life in the army to Venezuelan history and oil prices.
"The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice," said Sheehan, who held a vigil outside Bush's Texas ranch.
Chavez, resplendent in his bulletproof red guayabera, sitting with Cindy Sheehan and denouncing the Bush administration.
Does freedom of speech include the right to plot with foreign leaders to discuss the overthrow of your president?