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Venezuela's president said Monday that he is expelling three U.S. diplomats for their alleged involvement in acts of sabotage to destabilize the South American country. "Get out of Venezuela," he said, listing several names. "Yankee go home. Enough abuses already." "They have 48 hours to leave the country," President Nicolas Maduro said in remarks broadcast on state-run VTV.

"We have seen Maduro's televised announcement but we have not received any official notification of expulsions," "We completely reject the Venezuelan government's allegations of U.S. government involvement in any type of conspiracy to destabilize the Venezuela government." said a U.S. State Department spokesperson.

Maduro accused the group of diplomats of meeting with right-wing political opponents of his government, financing their activities and encouraging them to sabotage the country's electrical system and its economy. Hours before he announced former President Hugo Chavez's death from cancer in March, Maduro said he was expelling two U.S. Embassy officials and accused them of plotting to destabilize the country. Maduro canceled his plans to travel to New York and attend the U.N. General Assembly last week because of what he said were plots to physically harm him there.