Maduro accused the U.S. of wanting to “split Syria into four pieces” because the country represents “resistance to [U.S.] advance and expansion” in the Middle East. He also blasted the U.S.’s “so-called war on terror”, arguing that “the greatest terrorists are the elite of the United States”. Late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez also strongly opposed Western intervention in the Middle East and other regions, particularly in allied countries such as Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya. “We reject war, we want peace,” declared Maduro on Saturday, continuing, “Venezuela will act accordingly in the United Nations, in the whole world, to move what we can in the UNASUR [Union of South American Nations], in the CELAC [Community of Latin American and Caribbean States], for the truth of the Syrian and Arab and Islamic peoples”.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:11:39 +0000