Chavez threatens to cut off US oil

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has threatened to cut off oil exports to the United States if the oil company Exxon Mobil wins court judgments to freeze billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.
"If you end up freezing [Venezuelan assets] and it harms us, we're going to harm you,'" Chavez said on his weekly radio and television show.
"Do you know how? We aren't going to send oil to the United States. Take note, Mr Bush, Mr Danger," he said.
"I speak to the US 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," he added.
Earlier on Sunday Chavez accused Exxon Mobil of wanting to damage his country after it won temporary court orders to freeze $12 billion of the nation's energy assets.
The ruling was the first victory for the world's largest oil company in their battle for compensation over last year's nationalisation of one of their Venezuelan projects.
"You have a multinational, imperialist company trying to damage our flagship company," Chavez said.