[Updated at 3:53 p.m. ET] Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Thursday he called and sent a letter to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asking for the release of detained American hikers at the behest of actor Sean Penn.
Americans Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were released from an Iranian prison last week, after 781 days in captivity.
Chavez said he considers Penn a friend, and after the two spoke about the hikers, he agreed to add his voice directly with the Iranian president.
"If this call and message helped a little, I am glad. Even if it didn't," he said.
Fattal, Bauer and Bauer's now-fiancee, Sarah Shourd, were arrested in July 2009, with Iran saying they strayed across the unmarked border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran. Shourd was released in 2010.
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It is all BS! Penn is just a liberal goon and Chavez is in the hospital right now...I hope he croaks.
And you are a conservative extremist, wow name calling how adult. Chavez is full of BS and whether or not this has any truth behind it doesn't really matter. Iran is one of the most hypocritical regimes in the world and Hugo is aligned with them only because of the anti-American views they hold. This is all political posturing and carries no value to anyone.
All class buddy.
Childlike.... embarrassing.
They should try Sean Penn as a traitor, and left those liberal moron hikers to rot in Iran.
Wiaow, dood, dat's like, uh rilly cool.
Oh whatever. Chemo drugs must have him a little light headed. Or, it could be Penn's pot fog bank in his hospital room.
hay, he has a medical card for that, lol (i dont really know, but wouldnt suprise me)
I think Sean Penn should be included in the Axis of Evil
He certainly is in the axis of stupidity.
And you're in the axis of envy.
Typical insecurity of the emotionally twisted. All the whackos are trying to ride the "credit" wagon. Isn't Penn about two lines and a dime bag left of Charlie Sheen? Buddies, right?
cheesebuger, um he didnt claim it, hugo did you f-wad
ya right! and the Easter Bunny called the Tooth Fairy to ask Mother Nature if I could win the lottery.
Sean Penn's best two roles were as a drugged out surfer loser and a retard.
Those were roles?
All BS!
The next administration will do the USofA a much needed service, by removing this traitor's citizenship and sending him to his friend in venezuela. He has worked for years undermining the nation which made him rich.
Had sean penn's nationality been reversed, he would have never known fame & fortune, never had freedom of speech, and would no longer be among the living, courtesy of his ally, hugo.
sean penn, you've been given your freedom of speech and squandered it on hatred toward your own nation and people. It's time for you to leave the USA, and go where you can hate us in happiness, via an obscure, government-controlled media that we will never have to see.
Just leave, sean. Go and become a citizen of venezuela.
Such extremism. You've been given your freedoms too.... Just curious. Have you ever protested with a misspelled sign and teabags shoved down your pants?
True is , that neo-marxists and islamofashists front fight against good american people
no..... its really not. Is Rush Limbaugh screaming that now?
I think the relevant connection between these two is that they are both brainless dictators ruling cruddy economies with wacko philosophies. There is no natural love between Marxist revolutionaries and Islamic extremists. Look at Iran's own history, the leftist revolution was hijacked by power on the far right. If I recall, this is the nature of most revolutions: naive hippies lay the groundwork and the power vacuum is filled by traditionalist nutjobs. Somehow I think that's where the Arab Spring is going...
Chaves kicked the Oil corporations who were screwing his country out. Which is what others should be doing. Then people were pushed to hate him by Fox news. Most people don't know why they hate him. Tell us why YOU hate Chaves. I am curious.
"In May 2006, Chávez visited Europe in a private capacity, where he announced plans to supply cheap Venezuelan oil to poor working class communities in the continent. The leftist Mayor of London Ken Livingstone welcomed him, describing him as "the best news out of Latin America in many years".[199]" – wikipedia
That's why Oil companies, Republicans and FOX hates him. Their excuse is..."Free and Cheap is another word for Socialism"
Lets see. He destroyed freedom of the press in his country and now all the media parrot his thoughts. He was elected and then declared himself President for as long as he likes and you better keep that to yourself or you will find yourself in jail. He is a dictator and a bully. Is that enough? The question I have for you is, why do you love him so much?
@MichaelF...What you just described is what FOX News is to GOP and TEA party. Lies and Propaganda. What's the difference?
THANKYOU. Most americans are to stupid to know WHY to hate, just that the repubs tell them to hate and they do, our gas would be a dollar a gallon if we nationalized it. Afterall, it is american oil, not the american GOVERNMENTS oil. It is Wt The People, not Us the Government.
SICK! even though i agree with you...but SICK!
Ewww I thought Scarlet was with someone who is hung like a horse. Sean Penn is Madonna's old chew toy. Why is this news?
I wouldn't cornhole him if you paid me.
Wouldn't count on that happening
job opening, soon.
You actually created a screen name for this post? That's pathetic. Why don't you connect your face book and post like a real man with your real name. Do you keep getting banned?
Andy, I agree with the fact that his name is stupid, but putting "real man" and "fackbook" in the same sentence, thats not going to win you any iq point bub.
This little piggy had roast beef......