Politics
"The United Nations and the Organization of American States are useless the way they are. They are useless for our peoples and if they do not serve our people they are simply useless. We must restructure these organizations or they will die," said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Wednesday.

Following the closing session of the Sixth Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), the Venezuelan Head of State said that if international institutions like the UN are unable to enforce resolutions and accept proposals emerging from peoples, whose voices are represented on international bodies such as ALBA, they can not continue to operate, the state-owned news agency ABN reported.

Chávez said that the UN and the Organization of American States (OAS) act the same way. He added that they serve the interests of powerful countries, which sabotage and impede the fight of people against aggressions, threats and violation of the sovereignty of nations.