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CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has given Brazil’s president the green light to talk about Venezuela with President Barack Obama. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva plans to meet Obama on March 14 in Washington, and Chavez said the Brazilian leader told him by phone that “he would like to talk with the president of the United States about the case of Venezuela.”
U.S.-Venezuelan relations remain prickly despite the change of administrations in Washington, while Brazil’s left-leaning president has maintained friendly relations both with the U.S. and the socialist Chavez.
