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Floods have killed 32 people and left 70,000 homeless
President Hugo Chávez today blamed "criminal" capitalism for the rains and flooding that have brought chaos to Venezuela, killing 32 people and leaving 70,000 homeless.
Chávez has taken charge of rescue operations, inviting 25 families to take refuge in his palace and ordering space made for others in ministries, barracks and even a shopping mall.
"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," Chávez added.
He criticised the "arrogance" of rich nations. "The environmental imbalance capitalism has caused is without doubt the fundamental cause of the alarming atmospheric phenomena," he wrote in his weekly "The Lines of Chavez" column.
"The world's powerful economies insist on a destructive way of life and then refuse to take any responsibility."
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