These are the words of Venezuela’s de fact dictator Hugo Chávez.

I think we can expect him to declare himself the Messiah in a not too distant future. Chávez is the new Idi Amin; you know, the Ugandan dictator who in the 1970s declared himself the King of Scotland and ordered his subjects to address him as: His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, Conqueror of the British Empire.