Hugo Chavez's Bad Week

It couldn't happen to a better person. Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has seen his country's students rioting openly, his security people have fired on those students, he's facing defeat on a referendum to make him president for life and now CNN is trying "instigate his murder":

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday CNN may have been instigating his murder when the U.S. TV network showed a photograph of him with a label underneath that read "Who killed him?"

The caption appeared to be a production mistake -- confusing a Chavez news item with one on the death of a football star. The anchor said "take the image down" when he realized.

But Chavez called for a probe in an interview on state television, where he repeatedly reviewed a tape of the broadcast, questioning why the unconnected photograph and wording were left on screen for several seconds.

"I want the state prosecutor to look into bringing a suit against CNN for instigating murder in Venezuela," he said. "... undoubtedly it is part of the psychological warfare."

I'm sure there are many people who want the Castro-wannabe dead (starting with his ex-wife presumably), but I would say that CNN is not one of them. CNN is the very same network that looked the other way while Saddam's men raped and murdered the civilian populace. CNN is more akin to Chavez politics than George Bush's as well.

I'm also positive that shooting at students and invading one neighbor while supporting an insurgency in the other is not exactly going to help his cause.