2009.12.18

President (dictator) of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Hugo Chavez addressed the delegates at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. His anti-capitalist diatribe that drew thunderous applause from the convention's delegates Wednesday:

"One could say, Mr. President, that a ghost is haunting Copenhagen, to paraphrase Karl Marx, the great Karl Marx, a ghost is haunting the streets of Copenhagen, and I think that ghost walks silently through this room, walking around among us, through the halls, out below, it rises, this ghost is a terrible ghost almost nobody wants to mention it: Capitalism is the ghost, almost nobody wants to mention it. It's capitalism, the people roar, out there, hear them."

"Socialism, the other ghost Karl Marx spoke about, which walks here too, rather it is like a counter-ghost. Socialism, this is the direction, this is the path to save the planet, I don't have the least doubt."

Also, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged that the United States would help mobilize $100 billion a year in climate change aid for developing nations.