'Tasteful Nipples' And Other Age Musings

The Age gets right to the core of George Bush's visit to Brazil:

A handful dressed up as the grim reaper, while some women paraded through the streets with stickers of George Bush and Adolf Hitler placed tastefully over their nipples.

Indeed. And who else should throw in their five cents to Bush's Latin America voyage other than that masterful economic doyen - Hugo Chavez.

President Chavez said yesterday Mr Bush should be given "the gold medal for hypocrisy". "Now he's discovering … after so many years that there's poverty in Latin America, precisely when the US empire is the principal culprit," said Mr Chavez, who routinely insults Mr Bush.

Although, not often enough for The Age to stop reporting it. Interesting that Hugo would point the finger at America for his own country's economic turmoil, which has a healthy inflation rate of:

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
15.8% (2006 est.)

Which means even the chicken feet are too expensive to eat.