Good article Oiramoric, looks like Chavez thinks a little more of his counterparts than they do of him...very funny.

This part was funny too:

Even Chávez’s presentation of the country’s Simon Bolivar award was contentious. A Moscow newspaper, Moskovskiy Komsomolyets, reported on Friday that Russian officials had asked their Venezuelan counterparts to dispense with the presentation. They didn’t want US officials to think that Russia was trying to “liberate” Venezuela.

Chávez surprised Medvedev by giving him the medal anyway, the paper reported, in an ostentatious ceremony.