Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized on Sunday the use of agricultural products to produce biofuels, saying the United States' policy of supporting the practice could lead to "disaster".
In his weekly broadcast "Hello President", Chavez repudiated U.S. President George W. Bush's policies of respecting the use of crops to produce biofuels.
"Now Bush says trees and bush will produce ethanol. I can imagine people going crazy to cut trees and leaving everything like a desert," said Chavez.
He set Mexico and Central America, where corn production prevails, as examples of the consequences of using food to produce biofuels.
Nicaraguan "President Daniel Ortega tells me that many Nicaraguan corn producers have compromised their production for the next five years by taking it to the United States. That will be a disaster!" Chavez said.
He said that ethanol production is not intended to create electricity for homes or medical centers, but to ensure that "illogical, absurd and stupid capitalism can continue its voracious growth."
Source: Xinhua
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