Sean Penn should “shut up about Chavez the killer”
Hollywood actress Maria Conchita Alonso spoke for many when asked to comment on Sean Penn’s Oscar win.
“He’s an amazing actor. I can’t take that away from him,” she said of Penn, who worked with her on the 1988 cop film Colors. “It’s just that he has no clue at all what’s going on in Venezuela. He’s been praising Hugo Chavez, who is a dictator and a killer. He should shut up about what he doesn’t know.” Alonso, who was raised in Venezuela, was apparently upset by a glowing article that Penn had written for The Nation magazine about her homeland’s charismatic but increasingly dictatorial left-wing President.
In normal circumstances, Alonso’s interview might have been brushed under the carpet. But for the first time a Hollywood insider was saying what much of America thinks: left-wing luvvies in the movie business should wake up to the real nature of their hero.
What Ms Alonso said about Sean Penn could also be said of Benicio del Toro, Danny Glover, Kevin Spacey, and Oliver Stone—all wealthy entertainers and Chavez enthusiasts.
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