Chavez Threatens Cutting off Fuel Supplies to U.S

Local Editor

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez threatened his country would cut fuel supplies to the United States if Colombia waged a military attack over it.

Chavez pointed out that intelligence information revealed that the possibility Colombia would wage a military attack over Venezuela have increased to its highest level since a hundred years, and assured that his country is in preparation to prevent any military attack.

Chavez have cut off his visit scheduled on Sunday for fear of a Colombian military attack over his country, as Bogota accuses Caracas of harboring revolutionary leaders of the Farc Leftist Movement in its camps close to the borders. However, Chavez denies the Colombian claims and says he would not tolerate any foreign-armed group in his country.

Spain has previously proposed its mediation to contain the crisis between Venezuela and Colombia, especially after Chavez cut off his country's relations with Colombia on Thursday. On the other hand, the US considered that Venezuela is supposed to present an investigation around the topic to Colombia and the International Community.

Venezuela is one of the top four suppliers of oil to the United States, and the United States is Venezuela's top trading partner. However, relations between the two countries have begun retreating after Venezuela's current president Hugo Chavez was democratically elected first time in 1998.

Chavez has diplomatic relations with what the US considers as its "enemies", Cuba's Fidel Castro, and current Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.