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In his efforts to imitate Hugo, Nicolas Maduro can’t seem to resist putting on a hat. For someone whose head was always bare, it looks silly and most of the time he looks too contrived and unnatural. But he continues doing it.
Nicolas, you are no Hugo!
The Devil's Excrement 
June 28, 2013 at 8:03 am
I wonder at the commentary that seems to be making the rounds: “Nicolás is not Hugo,” as if Hugo were something admirable. They are both nincompoops who, under the direction of the Brothers castro, have taken a great number of people for a looong ride. What Hugo had was an ability to convince people to do his bid with empty platitudes.
June 18, 2013 at 8:50 pm
I don’t know Miguel, this seems beneath your intellect, hats? The GBV seems to be trying to move beyond Chavez, need to recognize that.
June 18, 2013 at 5:16 pm
Coming up on tonight’s news:
“Colombian and American assassins plant cancer-causing microchips in the president’s hats.”
June 18, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Nicolas Maduro criando pollos!!!
http://www.muerachavez.blogspot.com/2013/06/videos-de-nicolas-maduro-cultivando.html#.UcDFyue1HLQ
June 18, 2013 at 7:37 am
I think he could own the fedora look…if he’d just lose the stupid track suit. It is the historically preferred hat of gangsters, you know.
June 18, 2013 at 12:51 pm
I like the medical scrubs cap, looks like the tip of a condom aka scumbag.
June 18, 2013 at 5:17 pm
Now THAT’S funny!!!
June 17, 2013 at 11:10 am
The answer, simply, is that Nicky Ripe needs a hat. Downchild Blues Band:
June 17, 2013 at 3:55 am
I really think he looking more and more like Saddam Hussein…
June 17, 2013 at 8:11 am
Dang. Could.. could Maduro be the son of Saddam? Roy you may be on to something.
June 17, 2013 at 3:16 am
The hat he really needs is the crystal bell, and a fitting gasket over the neck. A vacuum has to be well isolated to endure.
Infinitely many hats, vanishingly little to protect.
The only head (and tongue) Maduro had are now resting in a casket at the Museo Militar now.
June 17, 2013 at 2:01 am
June 17, 2013 at 10:55 pm
It’s god but there should be more comedians making fun of this fool.
June 17, 2013 at 1:10 am
June 17, 2013 at 1:09 am
A true Mad Hatter in his own mirror world!
June 16, 2013 at 6:52 pm
Te falto el pajarito http://p2.trrsf.com/image/fget/cf/619/464/images.terra.com/2013/04/10/tag-reutersmaduro-pajarito.jpg
June 16, 2013 at 3:26 pm
He should be wearing a dunce cap.
June 16, 2013 at 3:58 pm
A DUNCE CAP WOULD BE A COMPLIMENT!
June 16, 2013 at 7:46 pm
The International Dunce Defamation Society said Maduro is not up to recognized standards and thus is unqualified to wear a dunce hat.
Where is the red beret? All the hats were made in China. Is he modeling for them?
June 17, 2013 at 10:02 pm
A dunce cap would be an insult to dunces;-)
June 16, 2013 at 2:13 pm
Meanwhile we have this http://news.yahoo.com/venezuelas-cardinal-pope-urge-coexistence-182056773.html What ever happened to the good old days when the Pope ex-communicated Fidel not once but twice?Perhaps this is juts round one?
June 16, 2013 at 7:45 pm
An excellent point. How can Pope Francis justify recognizing a man who on Friday declared Hugo Chavez to be “Christ on earth.” It’s repugnant. It’s disgusting. It should be an affront to ALL Christians. Not only should he be excommunicated, like Castro, but Francis should never even have agreed to see this slobbering imbecile. The story: http://dolartoday.com/maduro-chavez-encarno-a-cristo-en-esta-tierra/
June 28, 2013 at 8:11 am
I also seem to remember that Lusinchi’s ‘barragana” was not allowed to visit the Pope of the period and stayed behind (probably shopping).
Hopefully, Pope Francis said a couple of things under wraps to this clown about the hypocrisy of the visit by someone who is supposedly a Sai Baba follower and a materialist communist to boot? They simply can’t make up their mind — like this changing hat business. Take one off and put on another, whichever is more convenient.
June 16, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Too bad we don’t have a picture of him wearing his tin foil hat! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat
June 16, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Something is wrong. I could not see the pictures. I am not in Venezuela. Could it be the case that the post is being hacked?
June 16, 2013 at 1:32 pm
I can see it and I am in Europe.
June 16, 2013 at 11:48 am
Not even as a clown is any good….!
June 16, 2013 at 11:42 am
We have to bring this to the attention of the OAS and the ONU.
June 16, 2013 at 11:33 am
Is this the mad hatter?
June 16, 2013 at 11:32 am
Miguel sometimes you seem sentimental about Chavez 🙂
June 16, 2013 at 1:05 pm
No way, but Hugo was a good entertainer, that should have been his career, nothing else!
June 17, 2013 at 3:08 am
He really was a worthy pupil of Don Francisco… Not my idea, it was part of Rolando Salazar’s Chavez act in La Reconstituyente.
June 16, 2013 at 11:12 am
There is a message here. Don’t blame me, Im as ignorant as yall are!
June 16, 2013 at 10:57 am
What a buffoon! He’s trying to find his identity, which of course is not possible
until he accepts the FACT that the Presidency of Venezuela is NOT for him.