I think it's fabricated. Chavez had been intubated for months, and I doubt the member of the presidential guard who relayed this could lip read through the equipment.
I would say we loved him more than he knew, but honestly Comandante Chavez was one of those leaders who genuinely seemed to love humanity like an older brother. He knew, he knew that the hope for communism heading into the 21st century and the rebirth of communism in both americas was on his shoulders. We couldn't have asked for anyone better, and not even policy wise, or ideologically, but as a leader and as a force of momentum few people have been as equivalent to Lenin as Hugo was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7F82wTH6_U
blows my mind that I used to think Venezuela was impoverished because of a dictatorship. Disgusting american programming.
