Chavez: Assassination of Gaddafi will not be end of resistance by the Libyan people (Translated) http://laradiodelsur.com/?p=52268

"This story is just beginning in Libya because there's a village, with dignity," he said, adding that "the American empire can not rule this world." Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Friday lamented the "murder" of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, which he described as a fighter and now a "martyr" and said that because of the crime, Libyan people's resistance to the invaders will not stop . "We had been talking with Raul Castro (president of Cuba). I remember that Raul would say, he wont be killed (...) Unfortunately death was confirmed after Gaddafi, was killed. Well, it's an outrage to life, what more can you say? "Chavez told reporters upon his return to Venezuela in Cuba after tests confirmed their good health.

The Venezuelan president said he would remember Gaddafi "life as a fighter, and, well, a martyr now." The Venezuelan president, who traveled to the shrine of the Santo Cristo de la Grita, in western Venezuela to fulfill a religious promise, accused the United States and its European allies to be "burning the world" in its efforts to subdue it. "Here's why I pray for peace in Venezuela and Latin America, for us to get to shield the American continent of wars, invasions and coups," he said. Chavez has repeatedly accused the U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of seeking to overthrow and assassinate Qaddafi to seize natural resources and the financial reserves of the country.

In late February launched a proposal to convene an international committee of mediation could find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Libya, an initiative that failed to thrive. On the other hand, the president expressed his hope that the announcement of the Basque armed group ETA who said they would leave the armed struggle "open the ways of peace" and said that any news to announce peace is good. "I have not heard about it, but hopefully it will be true and open the paths of peace," he said. "I leave it to Spain, the Spanish with all my affection and my respect," the president said, adding, however, that "all news to peace has to be good for the world."