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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused the United States on Sunday of trying
to impose a "global dictatorship"
He said the US, not Venezuela, should face scrutiny by the Organisation of American
States.
"If there is any government that should be monitored by the OAS, then
it should be the US government, a government which backs terrorists, invades
nations, tramples over its own people, seeks to install a global dictatorship.
That should be the government that is monitored," said Chavez.
His latest anti-US outburst reflected the current tense state of relations
between Venezuela, the world’s No. 5 oil exporter, and its biggest oil
client the United States.
US officials have said they are worried that Chavez’s dominance of his
country’s courts, the military and other state institutions, combined
with his government’s persecution of political opponents, puts Venezuela’s
democracy at risk.
