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Chavez Promotes Venezuelan Cooperation with Europe and Opposition to US in Italy

Tuesday, Oct 18, 2005

By: Bernardo Delgado - Venezuelanalysis.com

Caracas, Venezuela, October 18, 2005—Following his visit to Spain, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew to Italy on Sunday, where he blasted the U.S. government’s role in increasing world hunger at the 60th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), had meetings with Italy’s Prime Minister, and spoke at a conference on Latin America.

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The first activity upon Chavez’s arrival in Italy was to visit Monte Sacro, near Rome, where Latin America’s independence hero made a legendary oath 200 years earlier, in 1805, to fight for the independence of Latin America. Monte Sacro has been a symbol for the struggle against repression ever since the 5th Century BC. Echoing Bolivar’s pledge of the time, Chavez said on the mount that Venezuelans, “should not rest their arms nor their souls until we have broken the chains that oppress our people due to the will of the North-American Empire.”

Chavez also said that it is now more necessary than ever for the world to break with capitalism. “We conscious men and women of the earth, who are everyday more, must either change and transcend the capitalist way of life or life will end in one or two hundred years.” As an example of what might happen, Chavez mentioned global warming.

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Chavez reserved his strongest attacks on U.S. foreign policy for his speech at the 60th anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. “I accuse the North-American Empire of being the first threat to life on the planet,” said Chavez in a widely applauded speech. “The survival of the human species is in danger,” added Chavez. His audience included President Lula of Brazil, President Nicanor Duarte of Paraguay, and Italy’s President Carlo Ciampi.

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