They both basked in the knowledge that their economies were tied for last place.
For the record, nobody pasted Hugo Chávez's head on.
He really is double the width of Bashar al-Assad. It's like looking at the edge of a stretched-out show on HDTV, in fact.
"YES! Bashar has a hottie wife, who has no idea how evil he really is"
Dorkly, yes. But I like it too!