Thursday, April 03, 2008

Resemblance?

A picture taken by photographer Lula Marques in Brazil during Hugo Chavez's most recent visit to that country has become a source of anger for the Venezuelan president's followers:

Does he have any resemblance with anybody famous? Let's compare the picture above with the following one:

It is incredible the resemblance between Hugo Chavez and Mickey Mouse. To have the opportunity to see Hugo Chavez almost disguised as one of the Empire's most representative cartoons of all times is simply priceless. This is an ironic world, isn't it?

I'm sure that all the people who have been subject of Chavez's bad taste insults are enjoying this photo very much.

Photo by Reuters

2 Comments:

At 1:24 AM , Blogger Novlangue said...

Apparently Mickey Mouse is the regarded by post-modernists as the classic simulacrum.

(Not sure why I mention this!)

 
At 1:51 PM , Blogger Eddie said...

Thank you for your comment Novlangue. Although you're not sure why you mentioned that, I'm glad that you expressed your thoughts in this humble blog! This is an open forum, so any thoughts are always welcome.

Thanks for visiting this blog, and please come back!

 

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