As a man who saw an action doll of himself become Venezuela’s winter 2006 must-have objet d’art, Hugo Chávez would perhaps not ordinarily mind being considered a Latin American idol. Enter Colombian foreign minister Fernando Araujo, whose comments in a speech in Washington at the end of March caused something of a diplomatic incident.
“Chávez is the ideological leader of the guerrillas in Colombia,” he said. “The FARC say they feel a great admiration for him.
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