Hugo Chavez doesn’t like Alejandro Sanz. He also doesn’t like alcoholic beverages, and is urging his people to come off the sauce. The Venezuelan president says that booze isn’t revolutionary and is raising the price of alcohol in an effort to make his compatriots into “new men”:

It’s all part of Chavez’s efforts to encourage Venezuelans to adopt the psyche of the “New Man,” a socialist revolutionary with a monk-like purity of purpose. Chavez often cites the life of Cuba’s iconic hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara as an ideal example — and complains that many Venezuelans’ values are not up to par.

“We’re one of the countries that consumes the most whisky per capita in the world. We should be ashamed,” Chavez said recently on national television. “I’m not willing to continue offering dollars to import whisky in these quantities. What kind of revolution is this? The Whisky Revolution? The Hummer Revolution? No, this is a real revolution!”

According to AP, Chavez is also tired of people boozing it up on beer in the streets, and is threatening to seize beer trucks that “sell beer like ice cream”.

Along with alcohol, Chavez is also looking to raise prices on tobacco and luxury cars.

Via / Yahoo! News