The United States government, after all, is widely believed to have supported a coup plot against him in 2002. And then there's Pat Robertson's recent Tourette's-like recommendation that the White House save us some cash and just "take out" the South American leader.

With all that love coming his way, it is no surprise Chavez routinely dons protective clothing. But for a president with an outsize ego and an eye for the ladies, style is something not even the embattled Chavez could sacrifice.

Call in Miguel Caballero, the self-described "Armani of bulletproof clothing," who produces "high-security fashion" in an unassuming shop tucked almost anonymously into a middle-class suburb of Bogotá, Colombia.

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