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Belafonte is still fighting the good fight.

CBC - American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called U.S. President George W. Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world” Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including actor Danny Glover, Princeton University scholar Cornel West and farmworker advocate Dolores Huerta that met with the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez’s television and radio broadcast Sunday.

He accused U.S. news media of falsely painting Chavez as a “dictator,” when in fact, he said, there is democracy and citizens are “optimistic about their future.”

The Americans toured a prison, spoke with people in the street and heard praise as well as criticism, Belafonte said. To be able to criticize, he said, “is the greatest truth of a democracy.”

Chavez called Belafonte “my brother” and noted he championed civil rights for black Americans alongside King.