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Venezuela's Chavez to restore ambassador in US
By VIVIAN SEQUERA,Associated Press Writer AP - Sunday, April 19
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - Hugo Chavez said Saturday that he is restoring Venezuela's ambassador in Washington, voicing hopes for a "new era" in relations after barely getting to know U.S. President Barack Obama at a regional summit.
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Venezuela's socialist leader told reporters at the Summit of the Americas that he will propose Roy Chaderton, his current ambassador to The Organization of American States, as its new representative in a move toward improving strained ties with Washington.
The announcement crowns a week in which Obama rejected two centuries of U.S. "heavy-handedness" toward Latin America and raised the highest hopes ever for a rapprochement with Cuba, with which it severed ties 48 years ago. Venezuela under Chavez has become a close ally of Cuba.
Chavez expelled the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela, Patrick Duddy, in September in solidarity with leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales, who ordered out the top U.S. diplomat in his country for allegedly helping the opposition incite violence.
Washington reciprocated by kicking out both nations' ambassadors.
Chavez's decision on U.S. relations came after a day of exchanges with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other diplomats at a hemispheric summit in the twin-island Caribbean republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
A State Department official said Chavez approached Clinton during the summit sessions Saturday, and the two discussed returning ambassadors to their respective posts in Caracas and Washington.
Clinton "welcomes this development, and the State Department will now work to further that shared goal," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the discussions.
Chavez had stormy relations with the previous U.S. administration and once likened President George W. Bush to the devil. But he has warmed to the new American president at this weekend's summit, though Obama has been critical of him for his alleged harboring of and offering finance to Colombian rebels.
On Saturday, Chavez gave Obama a book about foreign exploitation of Latin America and repeated in English during a luncheon speech what he told the U.S. president the previous night at their first meeting: "I want to be your friend."
Chavez told reporters that he'd instructed his foreign minister, Nicolas Maduro, to begin the process of making Chaderton his new U.S. ambassador.
"He's my candidate," said Chavez. "We have to wait for the United States to give the appropriate acceptance."
At the 34-nation summit's inauguration on Friday, Obama won repeated applause with his promise to be an equal partner in the region and expressed his desire for a "new beginning" with Cuba, which was suspended from the OAS for 47 years.
Chavez has led the charge for demanding that the communist island nation be reinstated, and praised Obama's Friday night speech.
The Americas director of the Carter Center, Jennifer McCoy, called Chavez's announcement "surprising, but a very positive outcome of the summit."
She said Chavez may have realized he had little choice but to try to improve ties with the United States given Obama's overwhelming popularity in Latin America and elsewhere.
"He can still criticize U.S. policy," McCoy said, "but it is much more difficult to criticize Obama the man."
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Associated Press Writer Alan Clendenning contributed to this report.
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