Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has voiced his support for Syrian President President Bashar al-Assad. Chávez made the comment in a speech from Havana, where he is receiving medical treatment after doctors found a new cancerous tumor.

Hugo Chávez: “From here, we send our solidarity to the Syrian people, to President Bashar al-Assad, and we demand and we ask for the cessation of the armed aggression, not only diplomatic, armed infiltration, armed mercenary terrorism to justify — this is the same thing that was done to the Libyan people and to the government of murdered ex-President Muammar Gaddafi.”