Hollywood celebs Oliver Stone, Sean Penn heap praise on Hugo Chavez
US filmmaker Oliver Stone, a long-time Hugo Chavez supporter, has hailed the late Venezuelan leader as a great hero, saying he will "live forever in history". American actor and activist Sean Penn, another Hollywood friend to Chavez, also paid tribute on Tuesday, saying America had lost "a friend it never knew it had".
US filmmaker Oliver Stone, a long-time Hugo Chavez supporter, has hailed the late Venezuelan leader as a great hero, saying he will "live forever in history".
American actor and activist Sean Penn, another Hollywood friend to Chavez, also paid tribute on Tuesday, saying America had lost "a friend it never knew it had".
Stone said: "I mourn a great hero to the majority of his people and those who struggle throughout the world for a place.
"Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history … My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned."
Hated by the entrenched classes, Hugo Chavez will live forever in history … My friend, rest finally in a peace long earned
Stone, director of JFK and Natural Born Killers, has regularly praised Chavez, whom he interviewed for a 2009 documentary South of the Border, exploring the outspoken leader's role in bottom-up change sweeping South America.