CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday that military action in Libya by the West’s “men of war” is aimed at seizing the North African country’s oil reserves.
Chavez spoke as a five-country coalition including the United States, France, Britain, Canada and Italy launched strikes on Libya designed to cripple Muammar Gaddafi’s air defences.
“They want to seize Libya’s oil and they care nothing about the lives of the Libyan people,” Chavez said on state TV, wearing a red hard-hat after touring a road