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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made a politically devastating move last Sunday.  And it didn’t involve oil.  It involved silicone.

Inspired by the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, he made an eight hour appeal for the minds, and chests, of Venezuela’s youth:

“Now some people think, ‘My daughter’s turning 15, let’s give her breast enlargements.’ That’s horrible. It’s the ultimate degeneration.”  Chavez complained about the new fad of giving the plastic surgery operation at 15 — when Latin Americans celebrate a girl’s coming-of-age — during a diatribe against what he says are Western-imposed consumerist icons such as Barbie dolls.

While the world railed against Mattel toys containing lead paint,  it was Chavez who knew that Barbie was the real poisonous threat to children.

With Venezuela’s apparent stranglehold on beauty competitions, one would think that other countries, tired of losing top ten slots in the Miss Universe pageant to Venezuela, would join his cause.  Unfortunately, such a position would come at great cost:

They would have to forsake breast implants as well.

And that could never happen. 

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