Venezuelan president voices support for Obama
3/11/2008 16:28
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said yesterday there were good chances
for the Democratic candidate Barak Obama to win the US presidential elections
slated for tomorrow.
"It is not a small thing that an African-American
attains the US presidency," Chavez said.
Obama and rival Republican John
McCain are in their final campaigning stretch ahead of the coming
elections.
On many occasions, Chavez has expressed his disfavor with McCain,
but he has adopted a different view on Obama, who was born to a Kenyan
father.
"We don't ask him (Obama) to be a revolutionary, but to adapt himself
to what is happening, to peace," Chavez said at a ceremony to inaugurate the
construction of the Barinas international airport in his hometown of Sabaneta,
520 km southwest of Caracas.
Chavez said that a lifting of the US economic
embargo on Cuba and a withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, could be a good
beginning in case Obama wins the elections.
"The United States has everything
to be a world power," Chavez said, but it should never infringe on the
sovereignty of poor countries.
Xinhua
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