Venezuela's Chavez urges Libyan leader to resist

[naaman fletcher]

CARACAS: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday sent a message of support to embattled Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi, urging him to resist and calling on European nations to worry about their own domestic issues.

"There is Gaddafi resisting. Until when will this outrage last?" Chavez said at a meeting of his ministers. Part of the event was broadcast on the state television network VTV.

"Libya is a country of free and restless people that responds only to itself, and not the interests of the empire. Long live Libya and its independence!" Chavez proclaimed.


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While I am against the Libya intervention, and Chavez is 100% right about US and EU hypocrisy, Libya is hardly a country of "free" people.