Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez defiant despite US arms embargo

ENGLAND: London: INT Hugo Chavez (Venezuelan President) interview SOT (translated) - US arms embargo totally ridiculous / This confirms our denunciations / Facing an empire that wants to become owner of the world / Those governments who accept these illegitimate orders that is their problem we do not take those orders / There is a positive side to this / We have no interest whatsoever in buying weapons from the US / The arms we have bought from the US we could reject them / The US depends on us / We do not depend on them / If I decide to stop selling oil to the US then the price of oil would shoot up / There are many people wanting to buy this oil / Consumers in Europe, China, Asia / We are ready / Just in case this irrational and crazy government decide for instance to expropriate our oil company in the US / Or to apply any emargo against us / That would be very bad for them / I want the world to know they depend on us / We do not depend on them to place our oil - We are careful regarding a danger of US action against us / Plans to kill me / To kidnap me / To invade Venezuela / If the US empire think that by invading Venezuela they are going to stop the revolution they are very much mistaken / Or by assassinating me they are going to stop the impetus of millions of people / The result will be a deepening of the revolution - A fair price for oil should be around fifty dollars a barrel / What might happen is that thanks to the President of the United States because of the aggression against Iran it will be crazy / Thinking about converting oil business from dollar to euro that is an interesting proposal made by the President of Iran / We are free to choose between the dollar and the euro / President of Iran is recognising the power of Europe with a single currency competing with the dollar / Venezuela might consider that we are free to do so - No evidence that Ahmadinejad leading manufacture of nuclear weapons / We have to ask the United States to...