President Chavez Frias warning the United States he will cut oil
supplies
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias is warning the United States
government that he will cut oil supplies if the Bush 2 administration
makes any further move against his government by trying to invade
Venezuela or to impose a trade blockade. "If Mr. Bush is possessed
with the madness of trying to blockade Venezuela ... or worse, for the
Americans to attempt to invade Venezuela in response to the desperate
whining of his lackeys ... not a drop of petroleum with come to them
from Venezuela."
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias: "not a drop of oil will come
to them from Venezuela if USA tries to invade or impose a blockade
Chavez accuses the Bush's administration of actively backing
opposition attempts to get him out of the Presidency by all and any
illegal means but Washington D.C. has laughed-off the accusations as
"not serious" and denies that it is supporting efforts to dislodge him
from office. However, Chavez Frias says that major US oil companies
are "manipulating Bush like a puppet" and emphasizes that elements in
the United States want to get their hands on PDVSA in the same way as
has already been done by major US multinationals in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
The President warns the Bush administration that if the United States
even attempts to take action against Venezuelan oil refineries and/or
subsidiaries based in the United States ... for example Petroleos de
Venezuela (PDVSA) wholly-owned CITGO ... he will immediately move to
confiscate US assets in Venezuela. "There are plenty of American
installations here," he said addressing supporters who attended a
massive "Respect for Venezuela" rally in downtown Caracas. The parade
had been attacked at several places along its route from Parque del
Este to the Botanical Gardens by radical opposition elements who threw
rocks, broken bottles and molotov cocktails at demonstrators and
National Guard (GN) soldiers who engaged in street-by-street battles
to preserve law and order.
National Guard (GN) troops take defensive position on Avenida Luis
Roche at Altamira (Caracas) as violent demonstrators pin them down
with gunfire, stones and other projectiles, Sunday, February 29
Late Sunday, the National Elections Council (CNE) announced that it
was postponing a preliminary announcement on the number of verified
signatures from a November 28-December 1 campaign to petition a
revocatory referendum against President Chavez Frias amid fears that
the announcement might spark more violence from an opposition that, to
all appearances, has not been able to must enough signatures to
qualify to launch a referendum under the explicit terms and conditions
laid out in the 1999 Constitution.
President Chavez Frias has meanwhile told reporters that he will do
nothing to impede a revocatory referendum should the CNE say enough
signatures have been collected; but he does not believe they have been
able to verify as many as the 2.4 million needed.
Meanwhile, the CNE has announced a further opportunity for the public
to witness the democratic process with the setting up of more than
1,000 "repair locales" where citizens can inspect the petition
signatures they lodged last November-December and, where necessary, to
verify or reject their inclusion. Government loyalists claim that
thousands of forgeries exist and that the names of dead, foreigners,
children and teenagers have been falsified against all electoral
rules.
President Hugo Chavez Frias highlights examples of where petition
signatures of children and foreigners have been forged.
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