First Shed Your Freedom; Fat Will Follow

Hugo Chavez is urging Venezuelans to lose weight.

President Hugo Chavez said in a televised speech Friday that "there are lots of fat people" in Venezuela and advised his supporters to exercise and eat healthy to trim their waistlines.

"I'm not saying fat women, because they never get fat," he added. "Women sometimes fill out."

Chavez, whose oil rich nation is now experiencing power outages and shortages of various kinds, is pushing his socialist "Bolivarian Revolution" hard.

Don't worry, Hugo. Under socialism, lots of people lose weight. And rights. And lives.