Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds a Spanish language version of Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky while addressing the 61st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Wednesday Sept. 20, 2006. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Venezuela’s outspoken President Hugo Chavez called US president George W. Bush “the devil,” “a liar” and a “tyrant” in a scathing attack before the UN General Assembly.
“Yesterday the devil came here and this place still smells of sulphur,” Chavez said, referring to Bush’s speech at the assembly on Tuesday. “He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world.” Chavez launched a virulent attack on what he called US “hegemony” and renewed calls for drastic reform of the United Nations to reduce the US influence. His speech was warmly applauded. It was the second anti-Bush tirade at the assembly in two days, following Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speech Tuesday. Chavez quoted at different times left-wing US intellectual Noam Chomsky, Greek philosopher Aristotle and film director Alfred Hitchcock. He also called Bush “a liar” and “a tyrant.” “We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated,” he told the assembly. US “imperialism,” he added, was “a threat to the survival of the human race.”
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