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US Ambassador Returns to Venezuela

Diplomat back in Caracas 9 months after Chavez booted him

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 2, 2009 7:51 AM CDT

(Newser) – The American ambassador to Venezuela is back in Caracas 9 months after Hugo Chavez sent him packing, AFP reports. The diplomat was expelled after Chavez alleged that America was trying to undermine Bolivia's leftist government, one of his key allies. Venezuela's ambassador to the US,... Read full story »

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