Venezuelan President
Calls For Changing
World's Financial System
CARACAS - Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez
Wednesday called for
changing the world's
financial system.
Chavez made the appeal
during the inauguration
ceremony of the third
summit of judicial heads
from the Union of South
American Nations held in
Venezuela's Margarita
Island.
Noting the current world
financial crisis could
be more serious than the
one in 1929, Chavez said
changing the world's
financial system would
be the only way out.
The current system
follows a development
model "that is
destroying the world not
only physically but also
morally," the president
said.
He said the crisis
signals the end to a
financial system
featured with the lack
of ethics and the
existence of an unfair
mechanism.
"The crisis is not only
an economic one, but
also a political,
ethical, judicial and
ecological one," he
said.