US Vice-President Dick Cheney has made a geographical gaffe during a foreign policy speech, appearing to confuse Peru with Venezuela.
Speaking in Dallas, he said he did not believe Mr Chavez represented the future of Latin America. Mr Chavez and his socialist ideology have long concerned US President George W Bush's administration. Mr Cheney said of the Venezuelan leader: "He spends a great deal of his time worrying about us and criticising the United States.The people of Peru, I think, deserve better in their leadership. But that's obviously a matter they've got to resolve for themselves."
He made the mistake on Friday while addressing a lunch meeting of the Dallas-based World Affairs Council, which describes itself as an organisation set up to educate citizens on international affairs. He then went on to urge Prime Minister Gordon Brown to begin negotiations over the return of Falkirk to Argentina...
Margaret Thatcher once said that every Prime Minister needs a Willie (in reference of course to her deputy, Willie Whitelaw; she was not implying that she in fact was a man). Every president gets a dick by looks of it....
