The Bolivarian leader’s speech went around the world due to its strong denunciation of US imperialism and its atrocious crimes against the nations of the South in its effort to consolidate its hegemonic system of domination, Gil posted on the X platform, formerly Twitter.

The Foreign Minister stressed that the speech was full of reflections, criticisms, and messages of hope, such as the need to rebuild the United Nations so that it can defend the sovereignty of the global nations, whose awakening and cry for freedom was already unstoppable.”

Chávez expressed in the audiovisual message, “Yesterday, the devil came here,” alluding to George W. Bush’s appearance before the General Assembly. “Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table at which I am standing now,” he noted.

The Venezuelan commander said that yesterday, from this stand, the president of the United States, to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world.

“I think there are reasons for us to be optimistic, irrepressibly optimistic, as a poet would say, because beyond the threats, bombs, wars, aggression, the preemptive war, and destruction of entire nations, one can see that a new era is emerging,” Gil said.

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