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By catdynamics on September 14, 2008.

"...ChÃ¡vez last night ordered the US ambassador to leave Venezuela within 72 hours and accused Washington of fomenting a coup attempt..."

Grauniad has more

"...ChÃ¡vez 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."

Heh, that crazy Chavez dude, what a wild man.
Clearly not related to the first of two Bear Reconnaissance/Bomber aircraft coming to visit from Russia

Coincidentally Bolivia also expelled the US ambassdor the day before, and the US in turn expelled the Bolivian ambassador.

There's only about 4 and 1/2 months left, who else can they really piss off?

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I've been translated into Spanish!

La falsedad de los universales humanos Existen universales humanos. Ahora concederme media hora para explicar por quÃ© esto es correcto y falso a al vez. Pero primero, algo sobre el trasfondo y la definiciÃ³n.

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And why? Because one of the companies that makes them has been bought by a company with ties to Hugo Chavez:

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Once upon a time - by which I mean the 19th century - people spilled the poison arsenic into their lives with free and merry hands.

who else can they really piss off?

Let's not give them any ideas.

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