23/03/2011 11:09
Chavez: Capitalism may have ended life on Mars
"I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet," Venezuela's socialist president Hugo Chavez said in a speech to mark World Water Day.
Mr. Chavez, who also holds capitalism responsible for many of the world's problems, warned water supplies on Earth were drying up.
"Careful. Here on planet Earth, where hundreds of years ago or less there were great forests, now there are deserts. Where there were rivers, there are deserts," Mr. Chavez said, sipping from a glass of water.
He added that the West's attacks on Libya were about water and oil reserves, Reuters reported.