Chavez minister in spat with US
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Venezuela accuses the US of detaining its foreign minister in an airport incident - a charge the US denies.
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Venezuela bids a hostile farewell to the US ambassador, as he regrets not achieveing greater dialogue.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A Washington-basedpro-democracy group said on Thursday it wanted to defuse a rowwith leftist President Hugo Chavez, who has accused the U.S.Congress-funded organization of backing efforts to topple him.
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President Hugo Chavez warned that the U.S. government, allegedly frustrated by failed assassination plots against him, was now planning to sabotage the oil-producing country's economy.
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Venezuela's president reportedly recalls his Buenos Aires ambassador after a complaint by Argentina's leader.
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The Spanish Socialist prime minister, Jos Luis Rodrguez Zapatero, yesterday faced a barrage of derision over his government's anti-Americanism following a snub by President George W Bush.
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The U.S. ambassador to the  United Nations accused Venezuela's foreign minister of "street  theater" after he was briefly detained at a New York airport in  an incident that strained already tense relations.
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Tensions between the government and opposition in Venezuela reach new highs after a fistfight breaks out in parliament.
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Venezuela rejected criticism by a U.S. State Department spokesman of a proposed media law that government legislators are trying to approve in the National Assembly, said an official Wednesday.
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The State Department is accusing Cuba of training Colombian rebels and says it is troubled by a large presence of Cuban personnel in Venezuela, whose president, Hugo Chavez, is a close ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday said Venezuela will summon the U.S. ambassador to issue a diplomatic protest after the foreign minister was temporarily detained by authorities at a New York airport.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched another verbal assault on President Bush Friday as he led some 20,000 supporters in an anti-American rally, calling the U.S. leader a "political cadaver" and blasting his policies as "imperialist."
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PANAMA CITY -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Venezuela's foreign minister fired verbal broadsides at each other here yesterday over the silencing of a key opposition television station in Venezuela .
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PANAMA CITY, June 4 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Venezuela's foreign minister on Monday fired verbal broadsides at each other here over the closure of a television station in Venezuela that has been critical of the government.
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Venezuela's information minister on Saturday criticized a U.S. plan to withdraw support for &#36;250 million in loan requests by his country because of its alleged role in the international trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation.
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The Venezuelan president causes a stir with his U.N. attack on Bush - and that's just the way the leftist leader likes it
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Venezuela has called back its ambassador to Colombia, accusing the neighboring country Thursday of bribing Venezuelan authorities to participate in last month's capture of a Colombian rebel in Caracas.