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Expulsions and aggressive language raise stakes in long-running diplomatic battle between US and Venezuela
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Bolivia has expelled the US ambassador, accusing him of fomenting the civil unrest that threatens not only the country's first indigenous Indian president, Evo Morales, but the unity of the nation itself.
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Mr Chavez said US ambassador Patrick Duddy had 72 hours to leave, adding the move was in solidarity with Bolivia
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A day after Bolivia sent the U.S. envoy packing, Venezuela's populist president, Hugo Chavez, ordered the U.S. ambassador to be expelled from Venezuela
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Chavez recalled his ambassador to the U.S. and said he won't send another envoy to Washington until after the U.S. presidential elections in November
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The shows of defiance by the leftist leaders of those countries were occurring -- by coincidence or not -- just two months before US elections to decide a new president and congress
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Opposition activists shot dead seven peasant farmers in the remote Amazon region of Pando, a government official said, describing the incident as a massacre
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"Go to hell, s--- Yankees, we are a dignified people, go to hell a hundred times," Chavez shouted
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Anti-government protesters fought backers of President Evo Morales on Thursday in Bolivia's pro-autonomy east with clubs, machetes and guns and seized more natural gas fields
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"We won't tolerate a rupture in the constitutional order of Bolivia," Marco Aurelio Garcia, foreign policy adviser to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, told a news conference