Hugo Chavez expels US ambassador amid claims of coup plot

Expulsions and aggressive language raise stakes in long-running diplomatic battle between US and Venezuela

President Hugo Chavez last night ordered the US ambassador to leave Venezuela within 72 hours and accused Washington of fomenting a coup attempt against his socialist revolution.

Chavez also ordered Venezuela's ambassador to Washington to return home and threatened to cut oil supplies, plunging relations between the countries to a new low. "Go to hell a hundred times, fucking Yankees," he told a televised rally thronged with supporters clad in red. Full Story »

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by Ben Ross - Sep. 12, 2008

Good ? how could anyone know....seems to lack spin,,,straight reporting......story seems to be missing from most MSM..Google news has not a peep from the sources of record! i wonder why....are they sleeping or is it that they don't like the news? (DON'T COVER IT AND IT WILL GO AWAY)

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by Jim Lang - Sep. 12, 2008

This is a straight forward and reasonably detailed report of Chavez's latest accusations against the US and his actions following Bolivia's expulsion of the US ambassador. While the report is principally a report of facts, it does contain a little speculation as to Chavez's motives for his latest actions.

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by Mike LaBonte - Sep. 12, 2008

Uses the term "socialist revolution" in the very first sentence without support for that claim. I think it is necessary to back that up with a mention of Chavez' Bolivarian revolution. This article has all the usual context on the story including Russia/Venezuela relations, but not much depth on those elements. While a good number of sources are named, none from the U.S. are.

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by James Jackson - Sep. 12, 2008

This is well reported. However, it fails on context. There is no mention of the 2002 coup attempt against Chavez. The US supported that attempt. Just because your paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

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by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 12, 2008

The Guardian report has more information than the AP report on the same subject.

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by Kaizar Campwala - Sep. 12, 2008
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by John Orvis - Sep. 12, 2008
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by Roy Pagay - Sep. 12, 2008

This is typical "western" media coverage of the growing tide of anti-U.S. movement in Latin America whose proponents are labelled "radical leftist governments", implying that a superpower such as the U.S., trying to unseat these governments are anything but "radical". The author tries to appear evenhanded but his bias is shown by disputing Chavez's claims of U.S. meddling but not disputing the U.S. claim that it did not.

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