CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has slammed US State Secretary Hillary Clinton for threatening China and Russia over their friendly ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and standing in the way to oust him.
Chavez said the US was trying to impose its will on the world and was trying to clear its way to invade Syria and also Iran over Tehran's suspected military nuclear programme.
"We saw overt threats to Russia and China," Chavez said, referring to Clinton's remarks last week at the Friends of Syria meeting in Paris where he asked the participants to direct their pressure on China and Russia so that they end their support to Assad.
Chavez said Clinton told the Paris meeting that "they (China and Russia) will have to pay a high price if they do not do what other countries demand".
"Do you understand? Obviously, this is the downright madness of those who consider themselves as rulers of the world," Chavez told reporters in Venezuelan capital, according to Spanish EFE news agency.
The Venezuelan leader, known for his anti-US stance, asked Clinton to rather devote her time to solving the problems confronting Americans.
"They are enough problems that the American people, the American nation faces. She should devote her time to solve the problems of her country."
He said the US authorities "want to do in Syria what they did in Libya".
"Foreign military killed thousands in Libya to kill (Muammar) Gaddafi And now they want to do the same in Syria and threaten Iran," he said.
He said Cuban Leader Fidel Castro had warned, "there is a serious threat of nuclear war".
The US and Venezuela have had souring ties particularly after the Chavez took over in 1999.
In fact, Venezuela alleged that a failed coup attempt in 2002 to oust Chavez was supported by then US president George Bush.
Venezuela broke off diplomatic ties with the US in September 2008 in solidarity with Bolivia after a American ambassador was accused of cooperating with violent anti-government groups in that country.
The relations were re-established under President Barack Obama in June 2009.
But the bitterness in the ties remains. On September 10, 2009, Chavez gave a speech at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow declaring that the US was "the greatest terrorist in world history",
"Yankee Empire will fall. It's already falling, and will disappear from the face of the Earth, and it's going to happen in this century," he said.
In December last year, Chavez called Obama "a clown, embarrassment, shame to Black People" after the US president criticized Venezuela's ties with Iran and Cuba.
Chavez said the US was trying to impose its will on the world and was trying to clear its way to invade Syria and also Iran over Tehran's suspected military nuclear programme.
"We saw overt threats to Russia and China," Chavez said, referring to Clinton's remarks last week at the Friends of Syria meeting in Paris where he asked the participants to direct their pressure on China and Russia so that they end their support to Assad.
Chavez said Clinton told the Paris meeting that "they (China and Russia) will have to pay a high price if they do not do what other countries demand".
"Do you understand? Obviously, this is the downright madness of those who consider themselves as rulers of the world," Chavez told reporters in Venezuelan capital, according to Spanish EFE news agency.
The Venezuelan leader, known for his anti-US stance, asked Clinton to rather devote her time to solving the problems confronting Americans.
"They are enough problems that the American people, the American nation faces. She should devote her time to solve the problems of her country."
He said the US authorities "want to do in Syria what they did in Libya".
"Foreign military killed thousands in Libya to kill (Muammar) Gaddafi And now they want to do the same in Syria and threaten Iran," he said.
He said Cuban Leader Fidel Castro had warned, "there is a serious threat of nuclear war".
The US and Venezuela have had souring ties particularly after the Chavez took over in 1999.
In fact, Venezuela alleged that a failed coup attempt in 2002 to oust Chavez was supported by then US president George Bush.
Venezuela broke off diplomatic ties with the US in September 2008 in solidarity with Bolivia after a American ambassador was accused of cooperating with violent anti-government groups in that country.
The relations were re-established under President Barack Obama in June 2009.
But the bitterness in the ties remains. On September 10, 2009, Chavez gave a speech at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow declaring that the US was "the greatest terrorist in world history",
"Yankee Empire will fall. It's already falling, and will disappear from the face of the Earth, and it's going to happen in this century," he said.
In December last year, Chavez called Obama "a clown, embarrassment, shame to Black People" after the US president criticized Venezuela's ties with Iran and Cuba.