(CNN) 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.
"They have 48 hours to leave the country," President Nicolas Maduro said in remarks broadcast on state-run VTV.
"Get out of Venezuela," he said, listing several names. "Yankee go home. Enough abuses already."
The list includes Kelly Keiderling, who is the top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela as the charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, according to the embassy's website.
The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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.
Earlier this month an electrical blackout left more than half of Venezuela without power.
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