This is hard to stomach...but actor Sean Penn lent his celebrity to President Hugo Chavez at a Sunday election rally.
Still recovering after 3 cancer surgeries...Chavez faces the toughest re-election fight of his career...though most polls still give him a double digit lead over young opponent...former governor Henrique Capriles Radonski.
Penn and Chavez are longtime friends.
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