Sue us, Chavez tells oil firms

President Hugo Chavez on Friday challenged foreign oil companies to sue his government if they want but said his plans to nationalise their operations in Venezuela’s Orinoco River region would not be derailed.

“Whoever wants to sue can sue,” Chavez told a news conference, but Venezuela has “every right” to take over the four oil projects run by BP, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, France’s Total and Norway’s Statoil, he said.
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