Posted on 10/17/2002 1:40:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
ROME - Labeling the United Nations an "outdated body," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez contended Wednesday that the organization was unable to solve the world's problems.
His denunciation came while addressing the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, a Rome-based agency which was celebrating World Food Day.
"The U.N. has become an outdated body, an anachronism. It doesn't respond to the challenges of the world," Chavez said during a one-hour-long speech.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in September was an example of the United Nation's shortcomings, according to Chavez.
World leaders, he said, had failed to commit themselves to the recommendations made by experts on how to safeguard the environment.
Chavez, who was in Italy as part of a four-nation tour in Europe, also condemned the use of military action to solve international conflicts.
"Peace is not something you impose with bombs, threats and invasion, but you achieve it with love, justice and dignity," he said.
He appeared to be referring to the U.S.-led military campaign last year which toppled the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and pressure by the United States and Britain on the United Nations to authorize military force against Iraq if it does not comply with demands to allow inspections for weapons of mass destruction.
Chavez, whose left-wing government has proposed land redistribution reforms, blamed neo-liberal, free market policies for the "murderous hurricane of inequality which is the scourge of the world."
"Our continent (South America) has received one of the largest injections of neo-liberalism, injections of poison," he said.
Later, talking to reporters, Chavez also spoke of the situation in Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest exporter of oil, but where 80 percent of its people live in poverty, inflation is surging and the army is restless.
He again rejected calls by the opposition for him to step down and call early elections.
Opposition business and labor leaders have called for a general strike to start on Oct. 21 in a bid to paralyze Venezuela.
Chavez has visited France and after Italy will go to Britain and Norway.
keep chanting that socialist dogma che!
Jeez you just get spoon fed that in one of you classes...
How are we the largest terror sponser in the world???
Where is you evidencial proof of this?
Yeah Cats with guns... KInda silly... Like you...
Free health care in cuba is correct... you go to the hospital and die for free....
If cuba is such a great place why do people flee..
Plus really how great is it to live under a dictator for 40 years really?!!
You claimed that the embargo was illegal.
Prove it.
You claim the US is 'the biggest sponsor of terrorism".
Prove it.
You claim the US was "Killing millions of Latin Americans in the name of free market policies."
Prove it.
"I don't remember the last time Cuba sent an army to terrorize it's neighbors."
That's due to the embargo stupid.
They have funded and trained the militant communbist groups that raped murdered and pillage throughout Central and South America.
Usually with money they funneled from Russia, but since that source dried up..
come on give me one of you lovely socialist diatribes... I want to be educated and shamed by some snot nose punnk that has not done a day of real work in their life.... great to be young and idealist eh... wait till you get to the real world kid..
don't have much of a stomach to defend yourself eh...troll boy?
Cuba has two sets of hospitals.
One set that foreigners see where health care is primo, and the set that the every day people of Cuba get to go to where sanitation is deplorable.
Oh, and the benevolent one isn't:
http://www.brookesnews.com/051807Castromassacre.html
Try getting a brain and quit paying attention to the Chavista propaganda machine. He's turning Venezuela into another Cuba. The only difference is that Venezuela (Chavez) gets bazillions in oil revenue to buy influence OUTSIDE of the big V.
Dope.
How did Castro come to power?
Violent over throw.
who sent troops to take grenada... oh Castro..
sorry che Fidel aint that benovolent.. you socialist butt wiper
The revolutionary wannabe seems to have fled.
Either that or they're writing a bigger screed than the last one.
A defender of communists, boy did you picked the wrong place to post.
reality got to be a bit to much for him, i'm guessing.
He was shown the door.
he was around long enough... did the MODS abu Graib him?
I think they took him to the woodshed.
EEEEWWW... ok I am staying away from there for a while...
I remember last time they did that the stench did not go away for a couple of months...
Yeah, horrific.
Lysol didn't help.
And they nailed his skin to the door too.
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