MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Chavez: “have no illusions” about new administration

Pte. Hugo Chavez

Venezuela's leader Hugo Chavez called Tuesday on his followers “not to have illusions” with the new US President Barack Obama and no matter who's in the White House “the Bolivarian revolution will continue to advance”.

Chavez said his government has to address a "permanent battle against aggression, against the empire that wants to dominate us again", but the Venezuelan leader also had time to celebrate the departure of George W. Bush. "Today is a very special day at international level because a new president takes office in the United States. Have no illusions, it's the north American empire" he said during a rally for his indefinite re-election constitutional amendment referendum. Chavez said he agrees with Brazilian president Lula da Silva call for President Obama to look at Latinamerica with "a new vision, a new point of view, of respect for the democracies and processes that are advancing". "Our greetings to the US people. On the other hand we are pleased that a president who spread terror and violence in the world is leaving. Good bye Mr. Bush; he leaves office with one of the lowest approval ratings in history in the US and the world, since polls were invented. He's the most rejected president in his own country and in the world", emphasized Chavez. "Let us hope that the new president signals a change for the freedom of peoples. From our side we will continue to advance, no matter who is president in the US. No matter what is the US foreign policy of that government the Bolivarian revolution will continue to advance and to build our national independence". Over the weekend Chavez reacted to statements from Obama who said that the government of Venezuela had become an impediment for progress in the region. "It looks as Obama is going to be a fiasco, very similar to that of Mr. Danger Bush", said the controversial Venezuelan leader.