CARACAS, Tuesday September 02, 2008 | Update
Politics
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, asked on Tuesday
in Pretoria for an "apology" from the former colonial powers
for the "horrible genocides" in Africa and Latin America.
"We demand that the genocides occurred in Africa and Latin
America be condemned," Chávez said in a press conference
during his first official visit to South Africa, AFP reported.
"Africa has suffered the greatest genocide in history," Chávez
denounced, in reference to colonization and slavery.
"In this respect, we are brothers, because we have known
such genocide in Latin America with the disappearance of Maya,
Aztec and Inca civilizations, which were annihilated upon
the arrival of conquistadors," said President Chávez.
"We have the obligation to remember this (...) It is our
duty to tell future generations about what really happened,"
Cháves added, flanked by South African President Thabo
Mbeki, who remained on the sidelines of Chávez's statements.
04:17 PM. Western Hemisphere. "Damned empire; I curse you one thousand times; some day you will be finished off and wrecked. I curse you one thousand times, empire." This is the least that President Hugo Chávez has uttered to refer to the US government. In urging the Bolivarian Armed Forces to prepare for war, he said that a US raid on Venezuela through Colombia would trigger and spread over the region "the 100-year war."