Venezuela's Chavez sees US role in Tibet violence, says aim is tainting Olympics

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CARACAS, Venezuela: Venezuelan resident Hugo Chavez accused the United States of promoting violence in Tibet, saying Washington aims to weaken China and sabotage the Olympics in Beijing.

"The (U.S.) imperialists want to divide China. And they're causing problems there in Tibet," Chavez said in a speech Monday night. "They're trying to sabotage the Olympics in Beijing, and behind that is the hand of imperialism.

"We ask the world to support China to neutralize this plan, which aims to sabotage the Olympics," he added.

The deadly riots in the Tibetan capital Lhasa this month have been the largest and most sustained in almost 20 years, and China has blamed followers of the Dalai Lama for the uprising.

Chavez has built close ties with China and said in an earlier speech Monday that U.S. "imperialism is on the offensive"



"You see the images of the violence in Tibet. Who is that against? Against China," Chavez said. "It's the (U.S.) empire that wants to weaken China, because China is rising up."

Chavez, who survived a failed coup in 2002, has often accused the U.S. of trying to topple his own government — something U.S. officials deny.


another source Spanish http://www.unionradio.com.ve/Noticias/Noticia.aspx?noticiaid=235679

En materia internacional, Chávez se refirió a las revueltas en el Tíbet, a las que se refirió afirmando que: "la violencia en el Tibet, todo esto es contra China, detrás de todo esto está la mano del imperio".

Indicó también que la independencia de Kosovo también respondería a intereses imperialistas, y aseguró que el "imperio" desarrolló una "campaña perversa" contra el ex mandatario serbio Milosevic, con el objetivo de detener el avance del socialismo en la ex Yugoslavia.

(He indicated as well that the independence of Kosovo would respond to imperial interests, and assured that the "empire" developed a perverse campaing against the ex-leader of Serbia Milosevic, with the objective of detaining the advance of socialism in the ex-Yugoslavia)