Hugo Chavez: Hollywood's freedom-loving King!?

Long live the King! Long live freedom!

"Soldiers used tear gas, plastic bullets and water cannons to scatter tens of thousands who massed Thursday to protest constitutional reforms that would permit Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to run for re-election indefinitely. Led by university students, protesters chanted "Freedom! Freedom!" and warned that 69 amendments drafted by the Chavista-dominated National Assembly would violate civil liberties and derail democracy."

Why have so many celebrities recently visited Chavez? This is the vision of so many in Hollywood? Is this Sean Penn's better world? Crush civil liberties, prevent free speech, cancel elections? I always thought liberals embraced free speech and civil liberties?

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