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Venezuela renews threat to cut oil exports to US, says US market
not vital
08.15.2005, 06:53 AM CARACAS (AFX) - Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez renewed his threat yesterday to suspend oil exports to the US if the US administration steps up its 'attacks' against his government. In March, Venezuelan officials, including Chavez, made similar threats. 'We do not want to sever links with the US government, but if the attacks keep increasing, as they recently did, this will put at risk the relations between Venezuela and the United States,' Chavez said in a speech yesterday. Chavez added: 'The two oil tankers that ship oil everyday to the United States might go somewhere else.' 'The US market is not indispensable for us.' 'We have no reason to cut supplies to the US unless Mr Danger (President George Bush) makes us do it,' Chavez said. Chavez made the comments at a mock trial organised within the framework of a festival 'against imperialism and war'. Venezuela, the only Latin American member of OPEC, which sends around half of its oil exports, about 1.5 mln bpd, to the US, accuses Washington of being behind a failed coup in Venezuela in April 2002, and recently Chavez has alleged the US intends to assassinate him. [EMAIL PROTECTED] afp/jmp/ma Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM
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