CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Venezuela is offering emergency oil and food supplies to the United States for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Globovision TV reported Wednesday.
"The Venezuelan government and nation express to the United States and its leaders their dismay regarding the magnitude ... of Hurricane Katrina," read a Foreign Ministry Statement.
Venezuelan is already a major supplier of oil to the United States, which has had its oil supplies from the Gulf of Mexico hampered by the devastating effects of Katrina.
The offer for assistance comes amid tensions between the United States and Venezuela. The White House accuses leftist President Hugo Chavez of turning Venezuela into a Cuba-style state.
Chavez in turn accuses the United States of trying to aid his political opposition and facilitating his overthrow.
