Venezuela expels human rights activists

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuela expelled two senior Human Rights Watch monitors hours after they reported that "discrimination on political grounds has been a defining feature" of Hugo Chavez' presidency. Jose Miguel Vivanco, the group's longtime Americas director, was expelled along with the group's deputy director Daniel Wilkinson for engaging in political acts while in the country on a tourist visa, the government said. "We aren't going to tolerate any foreigner coming here to try to sully the dignity" of Venezuela,

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