Venezuela's Chavez calls Palin a confused beauty queen
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, renowned for colourful insults of world leaders, called US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin a confused ``beauty queen'' on Friday after she said he was a dictator.
Venezuela published the first photos of cancer stricken Hugo Chavez since his surgery in Cuba more than two months ago, showing him smiling while lying in bed reading a newspaper, flanked by his two daughters.