Chavez calls on Obama to stop US hegemonic policies

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on his US counterpart Barack Obama to put an end to Washington’s policy of “invading” and “destabilizing” other countries.

Speaking at a Thursday meeting with his cabinet ministers at the Presidential Palace in Caracas, Chavez pointed out that Obama should “forget about invading other nations, destabilizing countries, etc.”He described the US as socially and economically “fractured” and called on Obama to focus on “governing his own country” instead.