Chavez signs 'pact of unity' with Belarus dictator

Visiting Minsk on his way to Moscow, Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez signed what he called a "pact of unity" with Belarusan dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko (pictured).

"Here we have some true brothers who don't want to colonize us, nor cheat us, nor exploit us," Chavez said on his arrival in the Belarusan capital. He announced that he was meeting with Lukashenko to "seal a pact of unity."

Even the European Union has anathematized Lukashenko as Europe's "last dictator."