Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday told some 60,000 cheering supporters he would block US access to Venezuela's oil resources if Washington moves against his government.
In a three-hour anti-American diatribe that singled out US President George W. Bush as an illegitimate leader, Chavez said "if Mr Bush is possessed with the madness of trying to blockade Venezuela, or worse for them, to invade Venezuela in response to the desperate song of his lackeys sadly not a drop of petroleum with come to them from Venezuela".