Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, left, grasps the hand of Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, at the Special Session of the African Union Assembly on the Consideration and Resolution of Conflicts in Africa, in Tripoli, Libya, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009. The Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi blamed much of Africa’s violence on what he described as intervention by unnamed “foreign powers,” bent on plundering Africa’s natural resources. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)