Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday almost told German Chancellor Angela Merkel to go to hell, but stopped short of insulting the woman leader on Mother's Day.
Instead he called her a political descendant of Adolf Hitler and German fascism.
'Ms. Chancellor, you can go to ...,' he said, pausing for effect and eliciting giggles from the audience, a group of military officers, cabinet ministers and government officials. 'Because she's a woman I won't say anything else.'
The leftist leader, who famously called U.S. President George W. Bush 'the devil' at a United Nations assembly, slammed Merkel for calling on Latin American leaders to distance themselves from Chavez.
'She is from the German right, the same that supported Hitler, that supported fascism, that's the Chancellor of Germany today,' he said.
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