Radio San Borondon (Canary Islands) CARACAS, Tuesday January 10 2012: Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has rejected the interference of the United States in the Near East, while proclaiming South America free from “North American hegemony”, in a speech at the close of a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. At a press conference held in the Ayacucho room of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Mr Chávez warned of the US threat to Iran of accusing the Persian country of developing nuclear energy in order to pursue nuclear weapons “without having proof”. In the same vein, he warned that the development of events in Syria, where “The United States and its allies” are asking with ever greater force that the United Nations Security Council intervene. As an example of US interference in the region, Mr Chávez also alluded to the invasion of Iraq on the “excuse” of the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and the war in Lybia under the pretext of prot