How many countries can AmeriKa occupy at once, readers?
I'm smelling the whiff a draft, big-time!
"Chávez Threatens to End Oil Exports to U.S. in Exxon Feud"
"President Hugo Chávez threatened Sunday to halt oil exports to the United States if the oil giant Exxon Mobil succeeds in freezing billions of dollars of foreign petroleum assets controlled by Venezuela....
Despite a deterioration in political relations, the United States remains Venezuela’s top trading partner. Venezuela is the fourth-largest supplier of crude oil to the United States, sending 1.2 million barrels a day to American refineries, according to the Energy Information Administration in Washington....
Chávez... accused Exxon, one of the largest publicly traded oil companies, and the United States of mounting a conspiracy to destabilize Venezuela:
“I speak to the American empire, because that’s the master. Continue, and you will see that we won’t send one drop of oil to the empire of the United States. They [Exxon] are imperialist bandits, white-collar criminals, corruptors of governments, overthrowers of governments.”
.... The tension with Exxon was just one of Mr. Chávez’s subjects on Sunday. He also accused the United States and neighboring Colombia of bringing paramilitary squads to Venezuela to traffic in weapons and cocaine. And he said his political opponents were plotting to “reconvert Venezuela into a North American colony.”
Given U.S. history in the region, Chavez is probably right!
Heck, we tried toppling him with a coup before back in 2002.
Times didn't mention that, did they?
