DHAKA: Venezuela has revoked the accreditation of CNN`s Caracas-based reporter Osmary Hernandez, the US news network says.

Two other CNN journalists who had been sent to Venezuela to cover the country`s political crisis also had their working permits cancelled, BBC reported.

President Nicolas Maduro had vowed to expel CNN unless it "rectified" its coverage of recent opposition marches.

Eight people have been killed in a series of protests that began this month, according to the government.

The opposition leader who called the marches, Leopoldo Lopez, was detained on Tuesday during a protest in Caracas.

The government accuses him of inciting violence as part of a right-wing coup plot.

During a news conference on Friday, Mr Maduro invited President Obama to join him in talks.

"Accept the challenge and we will start a high-level dialogue and put the truth on the table," he said.

Mr Maduro accused conservative sectors in the United States, including its media organisations, of plotting against his government.

The dialogue with the US will be "difficult and complex", said Mr Maduro, until the American government accepted "the full autonomy and independence of Latin America".

Venezuela expelled on Sunday three US diplomats accused of meeting violent groups linked to the opposition.

BDST: 0838  HRS, FEB 22, 2014