“‘No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people … support your revolution,’ Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast.”
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The article continued: “Belafonte accused U.S. news media of falsely painting Chavez as a ‘dictator,’ when in fact, he said, there is democracy and citizens are ‘optimistic about their future.’"
Subsequent to these remarks, UNICEF – for which Belafonte is a “goodwill ambassador” – made a statement trying to distance itself from this incident. As reported by AP: “The U.N. children's agency said singer Harry Belafonte was speaking as a private citizen, not a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, when he called President Bush ‘the greatest terrorist in the world.’"
