Saturday, 16 2008 - El Diario

 The Venezuelan regime will be harmed if finally decides to cut oil supplies to the United States in retaliation for the dispute between Exxon Mobil and the state PDVSA, said in an editorial the newspaper the Washington Post.

  "The regime itself will be the first victim," says the editorial on the warning issued on Sunday by President Hugo Chavez to suspend oil shipments to the United States by the Exxon case.

 The paper argues that Venezuela depends on oil exports to the United States, thus producing a very heavy crude with a high sulphur content, for the most part, can only be treated in special US refineries EFE