Big week for Obama: He receives praise from Castro AND an endorsement from Hugo Chavez!

Hugo Chavez: Smell of sulphur replaced with whiff of hope at UN - Telegraph

Addressing the UN in New York for the first time since he called Mr Bush a "devil" three years ago, Mr Chavez, a fierce Left-wing critic of America, made an hour-long speech that was almost as rambling as that delivered by Col Muammar Gaddafi a day earlier.

"The smell of sulphur is gone. It smells of hope," he said, adding cheekily that Mr Obama should "come over to the socialist side...come join the axis of evil over here".

Mr Chavez condemned capitalism as a chief cause of climate change and other environmental problems in a speech that touched on Albert Einstein, Karl Marx and a new film by Oliver Stone about him and other socialist leaders in South America.

Yesterday: Fidel Castro praises Obama on climate change

HAVANA — Barack Obama's call for action on climate change and his admission that rich nations have a particular responsibility to lead has received strong praise from an unusual source — U.S. nemesis Fidel Castro.

The former Cuban leader on Wednesday called the American president's speech at the United Nations "brave" and said no other American head of state would have had the courage to make similar remarks.