CARACAS: The late Hugo Chavez lives on — as a cartoon character, that is. Months after the Venezuelan leader’s death, Barrio TV depicts him high up in the clouds with the likes of independence hero Simon Bolivar and leftist revolutionary Che Guevara — when Uncle Sam unexpectedly pops up. “The devil is in the house, it smells of sulfur,” the leftist Chavez says, reprising remarks he made about then US president George W. Bush in a speech at the United Nations in 2006. Sporting a white beard and a stars and stripes suit, Uncle Sam soon gets the boot from a satellite and is seen crashing back to Earth — Venezuela to be exact — along with a little dog that licks his face.
“You are a donkey, Mr.Danger. Yankee empire, go home!” a red-shirted Chavez says, again in reference to an insult to Bush he made on his weekly television show “Allo Presidente.” The final scene shows Chavez’s successor, President Nicolas Maduro, riding by triumphantly in a bus while honking the horn. Maduro was a bus driver at one point, before holding several senior positions during Chavez’s 14-year rule. The cartoon is the second installment of a series that began in April. The first — also broadcast on state television VTV — showed Chavez welcomed to
Chavez lives on as cartoon character
Chavez lives on as cartoon character
