Last year the State Department declared Venezuela's consul general in Miami persona non grata -- Latin for unwelcome or unacceptable person -- and expelled her from the United States.

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He had become persona non grata in British-ruled Palestine, and so moved to Czechoslovakia to continue his work for the Stern Gang.

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And the iPad mini is virtually a persona tabula non grata among that crowd -- regardless of possible differences in build quality, camera quality, screen size or the absence of ads.

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In 2010, Chavez declared then-Ambassador Patrick Duddy persona non grata, marking the last time that the US had an ambassadorial presence in Venezuela (but not the last time the two countries have expelled diplomatic personnel).

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But the plane has never left the ground because, in the U.S.-backed government of Hamid Karzai, General Dostum is something of a persona non grata.

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She was virtually declared persona non grata by Miami Cubans after she ordered the return of Elian Gonzalez, a six-year-old who had travelled to America on a raft, to his father in Cuba.

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