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.
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