Chavez's Nuttiest Theories

The Los Angeles Times rounds up some of the more memorable declarations of the late Hugo Chavez, including:

• Mars: He theorized in 2011 that the red planet once might have had life but that capitalism and "imperialism" arrived on the planet and killed it.
• Cancer plot: He once speculated that the US gave him and other Latin American leaders cancer, a conspiracy floated anew today by his vice president.
• Haiti quake: The US caused it with a super-secret weapon.

• Twitter: He once called Twitter a "tool of terrorism," before becoming an enthusiastic tweeter himself.
• Devil: At a speech to the UN in 2006, he called George W. Bush the devil, crossed himself, and said the lectern "still smells of sulfur." At a subsequent speech in 2009, he said President Obama had eliminated the sulfur scent.

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