I would say that Hugo Chavez has far greater credibility than Bush, Obama, or any other representative of the U.S. government...which is not only a White-Settler state (not a country). At no time in its entire history has the U.S. ever been a Democracy. It was an invasion, that turned into an occupation based on annihilation, that got rich off of kidnap and subjugation to slavery.

The people of Libya were not oppressed, they did not live in poverty, illiteracy, denial of access to health care, homelessness, mass incarceration, and a police state. Yet,you have all of this on a mass scale here in the U.S., in Britain and France.

These problems were rampant in Venezuela until Hugo Chavez was elected by the people and returned to power, defeating the U.S. sponsored attempted coup. Do not be fooled by the Western corporate press, they had to destroy the Libyan revolution, demonize Qaddafi, as their dictators fell on either side. Long live the spirit of Muammar Qaddafi.