Actress Maria Conchita Alonso joined the voices of many Hollywood celebrities to respond to the passing of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. A number of celebrities who were personal friends of the bombastic leader shared shining eulogies of their late friend.
Not Alonso. "I'm so happy," she said of his passing.
The native of Cienfuegos, Cuba, who moved with her family to Venezuela when she was young, told the "Huffington Post": "I [do not] desire the death of anyone ... Ideally he would be alive with cancer and in jail."
She also had choice questions for her detractors: "How many people did he kill? How did he destroy the country? Who did he respect? Who did he not abuse?"
These comments are not the first time she has criticized the late leader of the Latin American country. Over the course of his presidency, she has received numerous threats through social media from Chávez supporters inside and outside of Venezuela for berating the former leader and his policies.
One twitter post from a devotee to Chávez called her the b-word, and she at one time also had a public spat with former movie co-star and friend of the late president, actor Sean Penn, over the merits of the former leader. Penn called her a "pig" and Alonso responded by accusing him of being a communist during an argument at Los Angeles International Airport in 2011.
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