No To Hugo
VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez has a big following among the quiche- eating leftists who wear Che T-shirts and vacation in Havana, but Maria Conchita Alonzo, a former Miss Venezuela, will lambast the strongman's "anti-democratic practices and terrorist-encouraging rhetoric" in her keynote speech at the Latino Coalition's 2007 Summit on May 1-2 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C. Alonzo, who escaped as a child with her family from Fidel Castro's Cuba, said no matter how one feels about President Bush, who was called "the devil" by Chavez, "that is no reason to offer support to a man who has himself violated the rights of his own people."