Hugo Chavez’s 10 Most Outrageous Moments

Hugo Chavez has died after struggling with cancer. In his lifetime, the Venezuelan president marched to the beat of his own drum – and that drum was usually off-beat. Click through the late leader’s craziest moments.

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Calls George W. Bush the Devil 

During a 2006 United Nations’ General Assembly, Chavez said Bush was “the devil.” “He came in here talking like he owned the world,” Chavez said of the 43rd U.S. President. He continued saying the podium “smells of sulfur still” from Bush’s speech the prior day. Clearly, not a Dubya fan.