Hugo Chávez – President of Venezuela
Hugo Chávez, the singing and dancing president, has his own chat show, Alo Presidente, in which he sits (fully dressed) at an untidy desk and sticks it to Western capitalism. A man who’ll call the President of the United States both a devil and a donkey, and give President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, a replica sword is not afraid to appear before his people stripped to his undergarments. Like any self-respecting enemy of neo-liberalism, he intuitively understands the democratising power of near nudity.
It’s little surprise that the president of Venezuela, rich as it is in natural resources, should sing, dance and generally mock his global counterparts. The hero of the Bolivarian revolution drops his trousers in the face of coups, referendums, strikes and protest, and so far, he seems to be getting away with it.
Other leaders drop their trousers here.
