Hugo Chavez Shower Advice

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Colorful left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is making more headlines, not for calling former US President George Bush a devil this time, but for calling on Venezuelans to stop singing in the shower and limit their water use to three minutes. These measures are a result of the struggling oil-exporting nation experiencing blackouts due to problems with the water and electricity infrastructure.

The nation’s problems have been further aggravated by low rainfall which has resulted in a drop in water levels in hydroelectric dams that normally provide most of the country’s energy.

"Some people sing in the shower for half an hour. Three minutes is more than enough. I've counted, three minutes, and I don't stink," President Hugo Chavez explained during a televised cabinet meeting.

Chavez has plans to create a new ministry to deal with the electricity shortages.

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"Colorful" Hugo Chavez? Seriously? "Colorful"??? What an incredibly inept choice of adjective to describe a man who wants nothing more than to stomp out the freedoms of his own people.

p.s. I LOVE to sing in the shower and I love trees.
written by Explorer , October 22, 2009

I'd love to punch that guy in the face!
written by Eric , October 23, 2009

Great advise. Just remember the 60s were the people in US thought the oil will
never end. Today's generation is paying high prices for imported gas. The same thing might happen to the water unless US people change their habits.
written by Lou , October 23, 2009

Lighten up - the guy can be colorful and a jerk too. You are just mad because he had the courage to call Bush a devil and obviously you like wasting water.
written by Lighten Up Explorer , October 23, 2009

Hugo Chavez is the worst thing to happen to Venezuela, and to a greater extent, south America since... well, since ever. He's a threat to all freedom loving people and yet some morons like Lighten Up believe his propaganda about how he's "fighting for the poor and helping improve conditions in Venezuela". He's a class 1, top of the line a-hole dictator.
written by Simon B , October 23, 2009

Never having been to Venezuela, it is a bit tough to comment on whether or not Chavez is such a 'threat'. If you check out wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Chávez) you can decide for yourself whether or not Chavez is colorful, a dictator or anything else for that matter. He does seem to provoke a love-hate response.
written by Wiki-Geek , October 23, 2009

What are you talking about, oppressing freedom? he simply gave an advice to the venezuelan people, to use less water in the shower, just like many of the US presidents did under the Oil-crisis(I'm not sure, but the country where i come from he did). haven't you noticed yet that we are drowning in "sh*t problems", over consuming, global warming, about 80% of the world is starving while we say it will all go away if we keep consuming. Its time to look at it the human way, not the romantic robot.
written by consensus , October 29, 2009

I'd like all the people who read item this with such indulgence for the "colorful" leader to try taking three-minute showers or even seriously imagine what a three-minute shower is like.
written by Venezuelandude , November 01, 2009

VenezuelanDude,

Hugo Chavez's advice works for Jennifer Aniston:

Prior to the launch of Al Gore’s Live Earth concerts in 2007, [Aniston] said: ‘I take a three-minute shower. I even brush my teeth while I shower.

‘Every two minutes in the shower uses as much water as a person in Africa uses for everything in their life for a whole day.’

written by Paul Escobar , November 08, 2009

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