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"We don't agree with everything Kadhafi is doing or has done, but who has the right to drop bombs on him each morning? They have been dropped on a commercial center, a hospital, a university. All that for regime change."
Chavez repeated his opposition to the strikes during a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean diplomats in Caracas.
Allied warplanes struck Kadhafi's compound in Tripoli on Monday in what NATO called a "precision strike" on a communications center that did not seek to kill the Libyan leader.
Tripoli said the transatlantic military alliance was trying to assassinate Kadhafi, but NATO members have sent mixed signals since the air campaign was launched last month on the merits of targeting the man who has ruled Libya for four decades.
The UN resolution approving military intervention focuses on protecting civilians against the regime's forces, but US and European leaders have made clear they want to see an end to Kadhafi's rule.
Chavez, meanwhile, also relaunched his proposal to dispatch a peacemaking team to "find a political solution to the problem." Libyan rebels seeking to oust Kadhafi rejected his initial plans when he first presented them in early March and they gained little traction internationally.
For the Venezuelan leader, the foreign intervention in Libya has a single goal in mind: "seize the oil."
Chavez and Kadhafi routinely make public condemnations of US "imperialism" and have exchanged visits in recent years. Ties are so close that Kadhafi was rumored early in the conflict roiling Libya for over two months to have fled to Caracas, claims that were later denied.
Following the NATO raid on his Tripoli compound, Kadhafi remained defiant despite the attack which his regime said killed three people and wounded 45.
"The leader is working from Tripoli. The leader is well, is very healthy, is leading the battle for peace and democracy in Libya," regime spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said outside the bombed building at Kadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya residence.
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Chavez repeated his opposition to the strikes during a meeting of Latin American and Caribbean diplomats in Caracas.
Allied warplanes struck Kadhafi's compound in Tripoli on Monday in what NATO called a "precision strike" on a communications center that did not seek to kill the Libyan leader.
Tripoli said the transatlantic military alliance was trying to assassinate Kadhafi, but NATO members have sent mixed signals since the air campaign was launched last month on the merits of targeting the man who has ruled Libya for four decades.
The UN resolution approving military intervention focuses on protecting civilians against the regime's forces, but US and European leaders have made clear they want to see an end to Kadhafi's rule.
Chavez, meanwhile, also relaunched his proposal to dispatch a peacemaking team to "find a political solution to the problem." Libyan rebels seeking to oust Kadhafi rejected his initial plans when he first presented them in early March and they gained little traction internationally.
For the Venezuelan leader, the foreign intervention in Libya has a single goal in mind: "seize the oil."
Chavez and Kadhafi routinely make public condemnations of US "imperialism" and have exchanged visits in recent years. Ties are so close that Kadhafi was rumored early in the conflict roiling Libya for over two months to have fled to Caracas, claims that were later denied.
Following the NATO raid on his Tripoli compound, Kadhafi remained defiant despite the attack which his regime said killed three people and wounded 45.
"The leader is working from Tripoli. The leader is well, is very healthy, is leading the battle for peace and democracy in Libya," regime spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said outside the bombed building at Kadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya residence.
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