Beneficient socialist Hugo Chavez further demonstrates his committment to people's democracy:
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who both often rail against Washington, also signed a series of other deals to expand economic cooperation, ranging from setting up a dairy factory in Venezuela to forming an oil company.
"The two countries will united defeat the imperialism of North America," a beaming Chavez told a news conference during an official visit to the Islamic Republic, which the United States has labeled part of an "axis of evil".
I know it'll upset some readers to think of this as a Hitler-Stalin pact in miniature (after all, Chavez hasn't purged any bolivarians yet — he's just taken to eliminating all forms of opposition), but this alliance will no doubt be welcomed effusively by those "leftists" who see hatred of the United States as ideology enough.
Daniel at Venezuela News and Views puts it well:
What is Chavez doing in Iran again, when Iran is now openly involved with the Hamas takeover of Gaza, when the Iran backed Syrian interference in Lebanon is vox popili, when Ahmadinejerk is cracking down on any dissent as he faces for a tough nuclear situation? Chavez has nothing to do there, of course, since even the Iranian model of repression would not apply much in Venezuela. But he is so bereft of ideas that he cannot pass an opportunity to go to a country where at least one street will be lined with flag waving supportive people.