Chavez On “Devil” Comment:

“It Occurred To Me Right There...

I Went Out To Say What My Heart Told Me”...

Reuters November 30, 2006 08:35 PM

Venezuela's president calling his U.S. counterpart Satan in a U.N. speech seemed a devilish gambit in the nations' war of words -- but Hugo Chavez says he was shooting from the hip.

Chavez earned headlines worldwide and sparked U.S. outrage in September with a sulfurous harangue at the U.N. General Assembly that branded George W. Bush Lucifer -- and contributed to Venezuela's loss in a bid for a Security Council seat.

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