Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in a statement on Sunday evening, repeated his condemnation of NATO forces aiding Libyan opposition forces who have moved forward on the Libyan capital.

"The democratic governments of Europe, well not all of them, but we know who they are, are demolishing Tripoli with their bombs," he said. "And the allegedly democratic and Democrat government of the US too, just because they want to. Only because they feel like it.

"Today they dropped - I don't know how many - bombs and they are falling openly. They don't even bother to explain anymore. Why would they?"