Amid a huge hullabaloo first reported by blogger Daniel Duquenal here and here, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela offered to finance a Brazilian samba school to dance in his honor. But being Hugo Chavez, he suddenly … didn’t come up with the pledge money. This, despite, the Brazilian school’s efforts to accomodate him, to print up programs, and incur all sorts of expenses to make that happen. Chavez stiffed them, buying lots of ‘goodwill’ for his fake revolution as word of that gets out. He’s not gonna be popular among the samberos.

Gustavo Coronel tells the whole exclusive story here.