Yet, this is what the market is betting on: that the U.S. will grow out of this someday, somehow, just because we are not Europe.

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After announcing the expulsion of one attache, Maduro -- addressing the media in a lengthy statement -- asserted that someday there will be "scientific proof" that Chavez was somehow infected by outsiders.

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