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Hugo Chavez will restore his ambassador in Washington

by Amy Judd | April 18, 2009 at 04:20 pm

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Hugo Chavez stated today that he will restore the Venezuelan ambassador in Washington as he spoke at the Summit of the Americas after speaking with Hillary Clinton and other U.S. officials.

Chavez expelled the U.S. ambassador to his country in September in solidarity with leftist President Evo Morales of Bolivia. Washington reciprocated.

Morales booted out the Venezuelan ambassador before, accusing him of helping the opposition incite violence in his country.
He has however recently warmed up to Obama and told him, 'I want to be your friend'.

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A. Tran

at 14:09 on April 19th, 2009

I think the Chavez announcement was made to the press on Saturday, but according to the White House office, he didn't exactly speak to the US delegation at the time. Of course, that was 24 hours ago.