Hugo Chavez gets down and dirty:
'Go right to hell, Mr Blair,' he told the prime minister during a speech in western Venezuela, using local slang to deliver the line. His exact words, 'vayase largo al cipote', have no direct translation into English.
Mr Chavez described Mr Blair as 'the main ally of Hitler' - an accusation that he is siding with the US president in its confrontation with Venezuela. Mr Chavez has taken to calling George Bush 'Mr Danger' and 'Danger Bush Hitler' among other epithets, and added that he would now need similar nicknames for Mr Blair.
'You messed with me, so put up with me,' he told the prime minister. Quoting the lyrics of a Venuezuelan folk song that he also recited when he called Mexico's president Vicente Fox a 'lapdog' of the United States, he added: 'I sting those who rattle me, Mr Blair'.
Relations between the Venezuela and US, whose lead Mr Chavez accused Mr Blair of following, are at their lowest point for several years after the two governments expelled each other's diplomats in a spying row last week.
The barney started when Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, compared Mr Chavez to Adolf Hitler. Speaking at a mass rally on Saturday commemorating the failed 1992 coup that he led as a lieutenant colonel, Mr Chavez then remarked that the Nazi leader 'would be like a suckling baby next to George W Bush'.
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