ABC News: Chavez Criticizes U.N. Reforms in Speech

ABC News: Chavez Criticizes U.N. Reforms in Speech: "'This is very suspicious … tomorrow or sometime in the future, someone in Washington will say that the Venezuelan people need to be protected from the tyrant Chavez, who is a threat,' he said in a speech that was broadcast on state-run television in Venezuela.

Chavez said Washington's 'imperialist' policies threaten not only foreign governments but also U.S. citizens, noting that hundreds of Americans have died fighting in Iraq.

'The majority of them are blacks, most of them Latinos,' Chavez told the crowd of 250, which included Dominicans and Puerto Ricans."