Hugo Chavez: Climate change 'due to criminal capitalism'
President Hugo Chavez has blamed "criminal" capitalism for global climate phenomena, including incessant rains that have brought chaos to Venezuela, killing 32 people and leaving 70,000 homeless.
Worst hit is the coastal area of the South American nation, where millions live in hillside shantytowns and mudslides have toppled rickety houses.
The socialist leader has taken personal charge of rescue operations, inviting 25 families to take refuge in his presidential palace and ordering space made for others in ministries, army barracks and even a shopping mall.
"The calamities we are suffering are yet more evidence of the cruel paradox of our planet," Mr Chavez said yesterday.
"The developed nations irresponsibly shatter the environmental order, in their desire to maintain a criminal development model, while the immense majority of the Earth's people suffer the most terrible consequences."
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