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Chavez Threatens to Stop Selling Oil to U.S. if It Doesn't Stop "intervening" in Venezuelan Affairs

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to stop selling oil to the United States if Washington doesn't stop "intervening in Venezuela's domestic affairs."

"In (President) Bush's case, he should cease the madness of directly intervening Venezuela's internal affairs. That would spark a conflict here, and it would be absurd to continue selling oil to them," Chavez told the Italian newspaper Liberazione in comments published Sunday by Venezuela's state news agency, Venpres.

Chavez did not specify what he meant by "directly intervening." In the past, he has accused the United States of being behind a failed April 2002 coup against him and of sponsoring current efforts to overthrow his leftist government.

Washington repeatedly denies the claims.

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