Hugo Chávez’s war of words with US president George W Bush has escalated, with the Venezuelan president threatening to sell his nation’s oil refineries in the US. Chávez has threatened to sell Citgo Petroleum’s refineries and divert US oil exports to other countries. “I could easily order the closing of the refineries that we have in the United States. I could easily sell the oil that we sell to the United States to other countries…[to] real friends and allies like China, India or Europe,” he told supporters at a rally last month.
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