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Ever wonder how "Mr. Danger" got its start, after Hugo Chavez mentioned him?
Ran across this snippet reading a Venezuelan time-line:
1929 Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and Venezuela's first freely-elected president, authored Doña Bárbara. Mr. Danger, a long-standing figure in Venezuelan life, was a character in the work. It was republished many times. His government was brought down in a U.S.-backed 1948 military coup, ten months after he took office.
(www.encyclopedia.com/html/G/Gallegos.asp)
http://www.timelines.ws/countries/VENEZUELA.HTML
Interesting!
