{"id":75004,"date":"2013-10-01T17:58:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/yankees-go-home-us-diplomats-expelled-from-venezuela-for-sabotage\/75004\/"},"modified":"2013-10-01T17:58:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:58:58","slug":"yankees-go-home-us-diplomats-expelled-from-venezuela-for-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/yankees-go-home-us-diplomats-expelled-from-venezuela-for-sabotage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Yankees Go Home&#8217;: US Diplomats Expelled from Venezuela for &#8216;Sabotage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:none\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/10\/01-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/commondreams.org\/files\/imce-images\/venezuela_0.jpg\" title=\"Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during an event in Coro in the state of Falcon, in this September 30, 2013 handout photograph provided by the government. (Photo: Handout \/ Reuters)\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yankees go home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those were the words spoken in English by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a live TV appearance Monday, in which <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2013\/oct\/01\/us-diplomats-expelled-from-venezuela\">he ordered<\/a> top U.S. diplomats &#8220;out of Venezuela,&#8221; giving them 48 hours to leave on charges of conspiring with far-right domestic forces to sabotage the country&#8217;s economy and power systems.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro declared, &#8220;We detected a group of U.S. embassy officials dedicated to meeting the far-right and to financing and encouraging acts of sabotage against the electrical system and Venezuela&#8217;s economy.&#8221; While the details of these charges are not yet clear, the president said he has evidence that U.S. officials had met with opposition forces in the southwest state of Bolivar.<\/p>\n<p>Marduro announced the expulsion of top embassy official Kelly Keiderling, consular officer David Moo, and embassy political staffer Elizabeth Hoffman. The US embassy soon after released a statement declaring, &#8220;We completely reject the Venezuelan government&#8217;s allegations of US government involvement in any type of conspiracy to destabilize the Venezuela government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Venezuela have been without official ambassadors since 2010, when the late Hugo Chavez <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-24342804\">refused to grant<\/a> a visa to Larry Palmer, who was appointed as US ambassador to Caracas, on the grounds he had made false claims about links between the Venezuelan government and Colombian FARC rebels. &#8220;Anyone who comes here as an ambassador has to show respect. This is a country that must be respected,&#8221; Chavez had declared. The US government then expelled the Venezuelan ambassador in retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro, who served as Chavez&#8217;s foreign minister and vice president, took over as interim president when Chavez fell terminally ill. Marduro was elected president in April in an election the US refuses to recognize.<\/p>\n<p>The US government, which fiercely opposed the Venezuelan government under Chavez, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2002\/apr\/21\/usa.venezuela\">has been tied<\/a> to a 2002 attempted coup against then-president Hugo Chavez.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">_____________________<\/p>\n<p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/p>\n<p>Copyright: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/10\/01-1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"'Yankees Go Home': US Diplomats Expelled from Venezuela for 'Sabotage'\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yankees go home.&#8221; Those were the words spoken in English by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a live TV appearance Monday, in which he ordered top U.S. diplomats &#8220;out of Venezuela,&#8221; giving them 48 hours to leave on charges of conspiring with far-right domestic forces to sabotage the country&#8217;s economy and power systems. 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