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Venezuela | Over indigenous protests, Hugo Chavez expels U.S. group | Jamie Dean

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez celebrated his country's "Indigenous Resistance Day" on Oct. 12 by delivering a surprising blow to hundreds of indigenous Venezuelans.

In a nationally televised speech from a village in the southern state of Apure, Mr. Chavez announced he would expel missionaries from New Tribes Mission (NTM), a Florida-based organization that has provided Bible translation and humanitarian relief in remote regions of Venezuela for nearly 60 years.

Calling NTM a "true imperialist infiltration," Mr. Chavez accused its missionaries of "colonialism" and of spying for the United States: "We have intelligence reports that some of them are CIA." Mr. Chavez also accused NTM staff of living in "luxurious camps," and said the group's ouster was an "irreversible decision that I have made."

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