Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said Saturday that Fidel really was on the verge of death a few months ago, but that the Cuban leader was more concerned about Chavez not dying than himself. Awwww.

“Fidel, when he was cofined to the bed — because he’s not in the bed anymore — was in very delicate health,” said Chavez before a crowd in an event related to the unified government party that he is creating.

Chávez said that he had told Fidel that he could not die. “But there he was, having already been in danger of dying for many days, and he said ‘Chávez, I can die now. You don’t worry about me; you are the one who can’t die.”

On Sunday, Chavez announced on his weekly radio show that he has a plan for “collective property”, which would take large “idle” parcels of land from their owners and into the hands of the Venezuelan people. Man, he was serious about that socialism thing.

Via / El Mundo and Yahoo! News