Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney was caught in a gaffe this weekend after he tried to criticize Chávez during a speech in Dallas. In blasting Chávez, Cheney mistakenly referred to Venezuela as Peru.

Vice President Dick Cheney: “He’s obviously an individual with his own agenda. And he spends a great deal of his time worrying about us and criticizing the United States. I — my own personal view is that he does not represent the future of Latin America. And people of Peru, I think, deserve better in their leadership, but that’s obviously a matter they’ve got to resolve for themselves.”

Neither Cheney nor the audience corrected the statement.