Chavez: US, allies want Libyan oil http://www.rebelnews.org/politics/africa/724461-chavez-us-allies-want-libyan-oil 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has denounced the Western-led military operation on Libya, saying that the West's intervention is aimed at seizing the North African country's huge oil reserves. "They want to seize Libya's oil and they care nothing about the lives of the Libyan people," Chavez said on state TV on Saturday as a five-country coalition, including the United States, France, Britain, Canada and Italy, launched strikes on Libya aimed to cripple the country's ruler Muammar Gaddafi's air defenses. "These are the men of war ... what irresponsibility. Behind this is the hand of the United States and its European allies, instead of taking the path that we have modestly proposed," he added, Reuters reported. 

Chavez denounced the military operations as a "pulverization" of international law and as a dangerous and unwarranted intervention in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. "Another imposition of the warmongering policies of the Imperial Yankee and its allies is unfortunate, and it is unfortunate that the United Nations endorses the war, in contravention of its fundamental principles," Chavez said.