| Venezuela has recently become the largest arms | | | | thought never occurred to Chavez that he might |
| purchaser in Latin America. Since Hugo Chavez, as | | | | be projecting his own wishes. |
| the President with dictatorial powers, gets more | | | | He also defended his nation's right to bear arms |
| of the arms shipments than anyone else, he now | | | | and, waving his own ample number of them, said, |
| looks like a king crab. | | | | "We need all the arms we can get to defend |
| The crab-like impression is increased by how | | | | ourselves from the United States, which at this |
| red-faced he becomes when he talks about | | | | very moment is drawing up plans to invade |
| America and George W. Bush. | | | | Venezuela." |
| Clawing his way to the podium to make another | | | | While most of the people in the audience remain |
| speech vilifying the United States, he ridiculed | | | | fiercely loyal to him, there may have been a few |
| President Bush for making a trip to Latin America, | | | | devotees who, beholding his new resemblance to |
| assuring his audience that George would be met | | | | a king crab, imagined him being dropped into a |
| with a cool reception and return to the land of the | | | | steaming pot, which he himself has had the |
| gringo with his tail between his legs. No doubt the | | | | wisdom to overheat. |