guest_writer 0 2005-08-25T00:00:00Z Hugo Chávez, the president of Venezuela, is a genial fellow with a good sense of humour and a steely political purpose. As a former military officer, he is accustomed to the language of battle and he thrives under attack. He will laugh off this week's suggestion by Pat Robertson, the US televangelist, that he should be assassinated, but he will also seize on it to ratchet up the verbal conflic... Richard 41454 false false false false 2005-08-25T00:00:00Z Gott 8581 5553 0 1 Chavez and US two-fingers-to-america-by-richard-gott Two fingers to America 2009-09-25T04:55:43Z 11065