Duncan Campbell
Journaliste et éditorialiste au Guardian.

Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s socialist president, remembers "with great affection" the day he went to see Queen Elizabeth II in 2001. "There’s something I’ll never forget. When I got out of the car at the entrance to the palace, I spotted a coin lying on the ground and picked it up, and saw it had her face on one side.

He has been called a terrorist by Washington but for three and a half hours yesterday in London he could do no wrong. An adoring audience of British left-wingers and the Latin American diaspora cheered, clapped, sang and laughed as Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez denounced President Bush and capitalism and praised Ken Livingstone and the Pope.