In March 2010, Penn called for the arrest of those referring to Venezuelan PresidentHugo Chávez as a dictator.[67] The two were friends, and when Chávez died, Penn said: “Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice PresidentNicolás Maduro. Today the United States lost a friend it never knew it had. And poor people around the world lost a champion. I lost a friend I was blessed to have.”
Glover was also a board member of TeleSUR, a media network primarily funded by the Venezuelan government.[48] During the beginning of the 2014 Venezuela Protests, Glover shared his support to Chávez’s successor, President Nicolas Maduro, calling members of his government “the stewards” of Venezuela’s democracy. Glover also told Venezuelan government supporters to go fight for the sovereignty of Maduro’s government.[52] Through the crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela, Glover continued to show his support for the Bolivarian government and President Maduro’s administration