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Mr Morales [the president] accused Philip Goldberg of "conspiring against democracy" and encouraging the country's break-up.>
>Well, there has been lots of turbulence recently - so it now seems that the U.S. ambassador is at fault? At least, that's what Mr. Morales seems to claim.
... and now, Venezuela expels the U.S. ambassador - in solidarity with Bolivia. This is really getting more and more ridiculous every day.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)