Chavez offers to take in Gitmo detainees

Forgive me for sounding cynical, yet I cannot help but wonder if the following is a late April Fools Day joke or not:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he is prepared to receive detainees held by the US military at the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba…

"We wouldn't have any problem in taking in human beings," Mr Chavez told Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera at the summit in Doha, Qatar, where he has been pushing for closer ties with the Arab world.

President Chavez also renewed his calls for Guantanamo Bay to be returned to Cuba, saying the US should finish with "this miserable prison".

Earlier today, Chavez visited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and both leaders promised “a common revolutionary front ... in the world.”

Online Sources- BBC News, AFP
Image- AFP (“Camp Delta area at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba.”)