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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/chavez-taunts-us-in-ambassador-row.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez dared the US government to expel his ambassador from Washington" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-chavez-taunts-us-in-ambassador-row.jpg" alt="Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez dared the US government to expel his ambassador from Washington"/></a></p>
<p>President Hugo Chavez dared the US government to expel his ambassador from Washington in response to Venezuela&#8217;s rejection of the White House&#8217;s choice for ambassador in Caracas.</p>
<p>Mr Chavez reiterated that he will not allow the US diplomat Larry Palmer to be ambassador, and said: &#8220;If the government is going to expel our ambassador there, let them do it!&#8221;</p>
<p>He added: &#8220;If they&#8217;re going to cut diplomatic relations, let them do it!&#8221;</p>
<p>The US State Department has said it stands behind its nomination of Mr Palmer, who is awaiting Senate confirmation.</p>
<p>Mr Palmer angered Mr Chavez by suggesting during the confirmation process that morale is low in Venezuela&#8217;s military and that he is concerned Colombian rebels are finding refuge in Venezuela.</p>
<p>State Department spokesman PJ Crowley said last week that Venezuela&#8217;s decision not to accept Mr Palmer &#8211; after initially giving its approval &#8211; will have consequences on relations with Venezuela, and that the US government will evaluate what to do.</p>
<p>The State Department has also been strongly critical of decree powers granted to Mr Chavez by his congressional allies this month, a manoeuvre Mr Crowley described as one more way for the leftist president to &#8220;justify autocratic powers&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now the US government is threatening us that they&#8217;re going to take reprisals. Well, let them do whatever they want, but that man will not come,&#8221; Mr Chavez said in a televised speech.</p>
<p>There was no immediate reaction from the US Embassy in Caracas, which has been without an ambassador since Patrick Duddy finished his assignment and left in July.</p>
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