News and Politics | September 12, 2008 | 5 comments

U.S. plans to expel Venezuelan envoy, official says

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The United States will expel Venezuela's ambassador in Washington to retaliate for the oil-exporting Latin American nation's decision to oust the U.S. envoy in Caracas, a U.S. official said on Friday.

"The plan is to kick him out," said the U.S. official, who asked not to be identified.

In an escalating diplomatic battle between Washington and Latin America's left-wing leaders, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expelled the American ambassador on Thursday, a day after Bolivia asked the U.S. envoy in La Paz to leave.

Bolivia accused the U.S. ambassador of instigating violent protests in the poor Andean nation, a charge the U.S. State Department dismissed as baseless.

It was unclear whether the United States would succeed in...

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  • 1percent
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      1percent  
    • For those in Washington here is the definition of Diplomacy:

      di·plo·ma·cy [di-ploh-muh-see]

      1. the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
      2. the art or science of conducting such negotiations.
      3. skill in managing negotiations, handling people, etc., so that there is little or no ill will; tact: Seating one's dinner guests often calls for considerable diplomacy.

      Try making decisions based within these parameters, It may work better...

      Ride on!

    • 3 years ago
  • Kati_kat
  • phoenixtoo
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      phoenixtoo  
    • how many people can we go to war with?Iraq, Afganistan, Pakistan, Russia , Venezella. Maybe Bolivia, how many others. WTF is wrong with Georgie and his little toad John?

    • 3 years ago
  • huntre
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      huntre  
    • It always looks more newsworthy for a GWB spokesperson to say that they're kicking someone out of anywhere for any reason, whether it's factual or not.

    • 3 years ago
  • Kati_kat
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      Kati_kat  
    • I'm pretty sure from the other article online this morning that Chavez is already pulling his guy, so how can we kick him out if he's already leaving? I believe Chavez said something to the extent that he will send his ambassador back when we get a new government...

    • 3 years ago
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