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Chavez to suspend oil exports to US in case of assassination attempt

CARACAS (AFP) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened 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.</i>

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