The famous friends of Hugo Chavez
POSTED: 07:47 AM PST Mar 06, 2013
UPDATED: 07:58 AM PST Mar 06, 2013
From Sean Penn to Don King, Hugo Chavez had an ecclectic circle of famous friends.
Here, then-President Elect Hugo Chavez drinks tea on Dec. 7, 1998, with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who arrived in Venezuela several days earlier to lead a team of independent observers during the presidential elections. Chavez, a former paratrooper who led a failed coup attempt in 1992, won with more than 56 percent of the vote.
