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Photo by Wiston Bravo, ABN
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Lima, Peru, may 16 ABN.- “We have a formula to struggle against poverty: the socialism,” the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela said on Friday in his arrival in Lima, Peru, to attend the V Summit of Heads of State and Governments of Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union (ALC-UE).
The Presidents will talk about energy, inequality and inclusion and sustainable development, environment, climate change and energy during the Summit that ends on next Saturday.
President Chávez stressed that capitalism is a huge machine that create misery, “We do not aspire that all the people follow the socialist proposal; however, it is necessary to make a huge effort to avoid the misfortunes caused by capitalism.”
In his brief statements issued at his arrival in Lima, he thought about the poverty problem and explained that it is very hard to struggle against it through capitalism “because it is like to go against the tide due to it is like a machine that everyday produces more misery and poverty.”
Concerning the inequality in the world, the President said that “there are 100 families in the world with a capital is higher to that of 2 billion people in the planet.”
“What they do with all that money while millions of people has not a cent to eat a piece of bread in several places of the world,” President Chávez said.
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