Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez wants US people to "wake up, fight within the society to change the government and transform the country for the sake of humankind." His comments were made during a rally on Wednesday night in New York City, AFP quoted.

Framed by Venezuelan and US flags that were delivered to the audience in a set of souvenirs at the beginning of the event, the head of state was cheered by people chanting "Watch out, Bolivar's sword walks down Latin America," or "Uh, ah, Chávez is not leaving!"

Invited by the study center Cooper's Union of New York, Chávez took outside of the United Nations (UN) building some of the verbal attacks made hours earlier at the General Assembly.

Again, he called US President George W. Bush a "genocidal" and suggested that he should face trial in an international court. About 600 people, most of them Latin American residents and some US citizens, acclaimed the proposal.