Cuban President Fidel Castro and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez, two Latin American leaders who are major irritants of the US, have jointly accused Washington of destroying the world.
According to the AFP, news agency, Chavaz said: “US Imperialism represents the greatest threat weighing on the world. He described the US “the great destabiliser” and “the destroyer of the world”. Taking a sarcastic tone, Castro told Chavez: “You already know, we cannot make a student study because that would be destabilising, we canot invite patients to get medical care because that is destabilising”.
Chavez, a leftist and former paratrooper, has become Castro’s strongest ally in the region as the two share a disdain for US policy. He has accused Washington of backing efforts to overthrow him and Castro’s Cuba has endured a four-decade US embargo.
