Over the weekend, macho guy Hugo Chavez welcomed Colombian poptart Shakira to Venezuela, the country Chavez is hard at work running into the ground. Shakira”””s riding high after winning four Latin Grammies last week, and Caracas is the latest stop on her ”””Oral Fixation””? tour. The squatty dictator has made a career out of bashing Bush, the US, US companies, and global trade, but he managed to overlook the fact that Shakira”””s tour is financed by Sony BMG Entertainment and Epic Records long enough to greet Shakira as ”””a sister of this great Latin American homeland.””? Chavez also shares fellow dictator Muammar Qaddhafi”””s taste for dressing up in outlandish costumes (for example, here), and the Venezuelan hinted in his playful/scary manner that he might just disguise himself with a wig or something and slip into the concert. Hugo Chavez in a wig is a topic that cries out for photoshopping, but since I don”””t have Photoshop you”””ll just have to make do with a picture of Hugo Chavez in a sombrero. Plus Shakira”””s latest video. For optical relief.