Hugo Chavez expels US ambassador amid claims of coup plot

The Guardian by Rory Carroll | Sep. 12, 2008 (News Report)

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 Roy Pagay - Oct. 1, 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.