Posted AT 1:54 PM EDT on 19/11/05
Chavez lashes out at Bush
Caracas — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accuses Washington of plotting to overthrow him, calls U.S. President George W. Bush a "murderer" and is expelling some American missionaries who he insists have links to the CIA.
Venezuelans are sharply divided between those who believe him and those who call it a ploy to distract attention from Venezuela's real problems such as gun violence, inflation, corruption and the homeless who wander Caracas.
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