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December 20th, 2011

Sean Penn and his former co-star Maria Conchita Alonso got into a heated fight at LAX airport on Sunday after the actress, who was born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela, confronted Penn about his open support for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

In a radio interview with WMAL in Washington on Monday, Alonso recounted the showdown, explaining that all the animosity she felt towards Penn for supporting the leftist dictator exploded when she saw him in LAX’s lost baggage area.

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October 29th, 2009

Sean Penn left his search for Fidel Castro in Cuba to meet with the equally controversial Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. What’s that about?

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