New York, September 30 (teleSUR-RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addressed the United Nations General Assembly during its second day, Tuesday, in New York. 

Maduro’s speech, which used South American liberator Simon Bolivar’s Jamaica Letter as its motif, emphasized the need for a new world order and a new, anti-imperialist breed of politics.

When Bolivar “described the path forward,” said Maduro. “He set down the elements of an American geopolitical system, a non-imperial system. Simon Bolivar described an anti-colonialist approach for the Americas and this is an approach 200 years later we support.”

Bolivar’s vision “rejects hegemony and the use of force,” Maduro explained.  While he lauded the United Nations as a “victory for the human race,” for pursuing a dream of inclusiveness and dialogue, he also accused the body of an “inability to act” when needed.

“We need another United Nations.  We need a transformation after 70 years, and as Boliviar said, the world needs a new geopolitical system, a new balance, respect … hopefully by the year 2030 we will be able to build and rebuild this wonderful system.”

He described the effects of the current style of geopolitics, particularly in the Middle East, where it had wrought “destruction devastation and terrorism.”

The Venezuelan president especially highlighted Libya, where he said what was done “was a crime.”  “Who’s going to pay for the crimes done in Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan?,” Nicolas Maduro asked.

“There has been financing and arming from the West and this has led to death and destruction in Syria.  And the people in Europe, there is a human tragedy and the people in Europe feel it will affect them.”

Maduro then turned his attention to Latin America, a region he says has “rediscovered its own path to dignity and to the future.”

He described regional integration bodies like PetroCaribe, ALBA and UNASUR as powerful organizations, which have helped Latin America and the Caribbean to speak “with one voice.”

The Venezuelan president also touched on other Latin American issues, including the U.S. economic blockade on Cuba. Maduro paid tribute to the “courage of President Barack Obama who was bold enough to develop a new policy vis a vis Cuba,” but said the blockade must be ended immediately.

Maduro acknowledged the efforts of the Colombian government and the FARC rebels to end the five-decade-long armed conflict: “From this rostrum, on behalf of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, we want to pay tribute to the steps taken by President Santos with the rebels.”