[Marxism] Venezuela: Oil To US To Be Cut In Event Of Assassination Attempt On Chavez

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On 21 Feb 2005 at 5:29, Rick Rozoff wrote:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=37543


Agence France-Presse
February 21, 2005


Chavez to suspend oil to US if assassination try


CARACAS - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened
Sunday to suspend oil exports to the United States if
someone tries to assassinate him, adding that US
President George W. Bush would be to blame.

"If they kill me, there will be a really guilty party
on this planet whose name is the president of the
United States, George Bush," Chavez said on his weekly
radio program, "Hello, Mr. President."

"If, by the hand of the devil, those perverse plans
succeed ... forget about Venezuelan oil, Mr. Bush," he
said.

Chavez said he was convinced that Washington was
"sketching out the assassination plans" before his
Bolivarian Revolution advances in Venezuela and Latin
America.

Chavez revealed a week ago that Cuban President Fidel
Castro had warned him of a US assassination plot.

"Now, I am going to say it. Neither Fidel Castro nor I
talk nonsense.

"If something happens to me, I blame the president of
the United States," he said.

"I will not hide. I am going to be in the streets with
you. I entrust myself to God, but I know that I have
been condemned to die," Chavez said.

"Each second of my life I will spend in the struggle
and God's will be done," he said.

Castro said on February 12: "If Chavez is
assassinated, the blame will fall on Bush.

"I say that as someone who has survived hundreds of
the empire's (assassination) plans," he said.

Chavez has also recently accused the United States of
being involved in an April 2002 coup, which removed
him from power for less than two days.

Washington has accused Chavez of being undemocratic
especially when it comes to the Venezuelan opposition,
and has more recently criticized arms purchases from
Russia and Brazil.

Venezuela is the only Latin American member of the
Organization of the Petroleum Producing Countries, and
sells about 1.5 million barrels daily to the United
States, nearly as much as Saudi Arabia.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently called
Chavez "a negative force" in Latin America, and the
State Department backed Colombia in a recent dispute
between the Caribbean neighbors over the arrest of a
Colombian rebel in Caracas by Colombian officials
without Venezuela's knowledge or consent.

"The United States knows that I have a 70 percent
(approval rating)," Chavez said. "And they know that I
am unbeatable in the 2006 elections and that they
cannot isolate us from our brother countries, despite
their blackmail attempts."






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