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Article: Slowly, Chavez isolates himself from world; Venezuela's leader has blasted the US and threatened a break with Colombia.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 5, 2003
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Byline: David Buchbinder Special to The Christian Science Monitor
CARACAS, VENEZUELA -- When bombs blasted the Spanish Embassy and the Colombian Consulate in Caracas last week, Venezuelan officials denounced the attacks. They issued a flurry of statements insisting that affairs between Venezuela and the two nations hadn't been damaged.
But that wasn't saying much. Venezuela's foreign relations weren't very good to begin with. The powerful explosive devices dramatically punctuated the discord that exists between Venezuela and other countries, both in South America and overseas.
Because of his autocratic leanings, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ...