He questioned pullout of US troops of Iraq. “A very peculiar withdrawal because they still have about 50,000 troops in Iraq. Now, then, who is to answer for all those children who underwent that war. Very nice to say ‘we are leaving,’ but only after genocide,” he said
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez accused the US government of funding the Venezuelan opposition to create chaos in order to promote a coup against his government.
"The opposition has been desperate all these years and continues in despair, fabricating, lying, misleading; it has no limit whatsoever and they were plotting (...) At this time, in September, Venezuela would be in chaos. They like to fish in troubled waters; they will be trying always to create chaos, trying to tumble the government," the president said.
He recalled that his government is a pacific but armed government.
"They obey the government of the United States for all the money given to them; they invest here million dollars. (US President Barack) Obama, why don't you use that to fight poverty and growing misery in the United States? Chávez wondered.
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Two years later, subsequent to the bank interventions that affected 14 private institutions, Public Prosecutor Office maintains investigations open, these concern the public funds that ended up at some of those organisms and were utilized in shady financial operations, this is included among the accusations held by the Public Ministry against some bankers.
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