Venezuelan Leader Chavez Aches for His Pal Gaddafi

World | August 24, 2011, Wednesday // 01:02
Bulgaria: Venezuelan Leader Chavez Aches for His Pal Gaddafi A file photo showing the brotherly love between Hugo Chavez (right) and Muammar Gaddafi (left). Photo from todanoticia.com

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has made it clear he commiserates with his friend – Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi – as the latter's days in power appear to be numbered.

In a televised address late Tuesday, Chavez declared that he would continue to recognize only Muammar Gaddafi's regime as the legitimate government of Libya even as the Gaddafi dictatorship appears on the verge of being wiped out by the rebels after a six-month civil war.

"We affirm our solidarity with the attacked and bombarded Libyan people," Chavez declared, reiterating his earlier criticism of the NATO-led air strikes against targets of the Gaddafi regime, as cited by the BBC.

Hugo Chavez condemned the NATO air strikes as "imperial madness".

"They loot it and they take the international reserves and the oil," Chavez said. "This destroys international law and takes the world back to the Stone Age."

The Venezuela President sees the popular uprising in Libya as an excuse for the West "to invade and take over a country and its riches," i.e. Libya's oil wealth.

Chavez has thus joined Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in condemning the West-led air strikes on Libya in a similar, "anti-imperialist" manner. Ecuador, an ally of Venezuela's Chavez, has also denounced the Western "aggression" against the Libyan people, in the words of its Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino.

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Tags: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Ecuador, NATO, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Libya, air strikes, Muammar Gaddafi, rebels

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