The Best–And Most Ridiculous–Things To Escape Hugo Chavez’s Mouth

The Venezuelan president hasn’t even been dead for 24 hours and he’s already caused quite the international frenzy. Pundits are already clamoring at defining Chavez’s legacy the best: did he help lift up the poor and inject valuable, vociferous criticisms of US foreign policy into the consciousness of the masses, or was he just another power-hungry politician espousing a failed ideology? People will probably continue arguing back and forth for the next several days–at which point Barack Obama’s name will inevitably be thrown into the chorus of failed socialist ‘dictators’–but no matter where you stand, there’s one thing on which we can all agree: Hugo Chavez has said some damn memorable things.