Chavez denounces international community's double standards and rejects intervention in Libya

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rejects intervention in Libya and criticizes media coverage of major global news The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, lamented on Friday the situation in Libya and denounced the media manipulation and double standards of the international community is quick to condemn the government of Muammar Al Gaddafi, and say nothing about human rights violations in countries like Afghanistan or Iraq. He is also a vote for peace and condemned violence. "Those who condemn Libya immediately to make exits with the bombing of the State of Israel on Fallujah, and thousands and thousands of deaths including children, women, families, they remain silent with the bombing and the massacres in Iraq, Afghanistan, they have no morals then to condemn anyone," said the head of state who made a vow because Libya will find its way through peaceful means. "We condemn the violence, imperialism, interventionism," he added. He recalled that as now standing accused Gaddafi, in 2002, he was himself briefly overthrown by a coup, and accusers said he too was a "murderer" of his people. "And the sentence immediately condemned me as an equal to me: "The murderer Chavez ordered to massacre the unarmed people,"said Chavez, who on April 11, 2002 was accused by the media and some countries of perpetrating a slaughter in Yaguna bridge in the center of the capital Caracas, where they found two marches for and against management. After rigorous research demonstrated that day in buildings near the scene acted snipers, some of them foreign. Chavez, who reiterated the friendship that links with Gaddafi, said he can not say it supports "or I support or applaud any decision made by a friend of mine anywhere in the world. No”. No." "We do support the Government of Libya, Libya's independence, we want peace for Libya, peace for all peoples of the world and we must vigorously oppose the claims for intervention," he said. He reiterated his Government's commitment to world peace and feelings of the Arab peoples. "Everybody knows our position in favor of life, everyone knows our struggle for peace, as everyone knows we love all people, as we love and want the Arab people as these people (...) we want," he added. He highlighted the work of journalists from teleSUR who travelled to the North African country. The head of state explained that since the uprisings began in North Africa and Middle East, his Venezuelan government has chosen to maintain a "prudent silence." "We have kept a prudent silence because firstly there is much misinformation, not only in the case of Libya, in the same case in Egypt were very wise I said to Nicholas, Nicholas caution, because we are accustomed to handling global media" .