Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez isn’t too pleased about the U.S.’s recent moves to block his country from the U.N. security council. Venezuela’s El Universal quoted his latest broadcast address in response to the move:

“Venezuela is going to pull out all the stops. It is David against Goliath. We do not care. Let the empire show its claws. We trust in the courage and dignity of the governments worldwide. I denounce that the United States government has started waging a world campaign against Venezuela, in an attempt at preventing Venezuela from being elected democratically as a member of the (UN) Security Council by countries around the world.”

He went on to say that the U.S. has

“an anti-Chávez war laboratory at the Pentagon. They are checking up on me 24 hours a day.”

Chavez is also miffed at Peru and said that relations between the two countries are more than just a little frigid — apparently they are in the deep freeze:

Chávez warned that relations with Peru “are in the coldest refrigerator as possible. And we are not getting them out of there unless the Peruvian Government apologizes to the Venezuelan people.” Chávez said he was upset because Peruvian President-elect Alan García, among other things, offended his “dignity of man” by “accusing me of beating women.”

Via / El Universal