CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has suggested his country might sell F-16 fighter jets to Cuba or even China, El Nacional reported Wednesday.
Chavez made the comments during a nationally televised address in which he accused the United States of failing to honor an agreement to provide Venezuela with spare parts need to maintain the planes.
The United States sold the fighters to Venezuela in the 1980's when the two nations had closer ties.
Now, the left-wing Chavez has become an ardent critic of the Bush administration and has even accused it of plotting the Venezuelan president's overthrow.
In turn, the White House has said Chavez is trying to sow the seeds of socialist ideals throughout Latin America, supporting leftist groups in neighboring Colombian and in Bolivia.
