Thursday, January 9, 2014

Venezuela president and opposition leader in rare handshake

After months of insults, Venezuela's president and opposition leader on Wednesday shook hands for the first time since their bitter election standoff last year - at a meeting about chronic violent crime prompted by the roadside murder of a popular beauty queen. President Nicolas Maduro routinely calls Henrique Capriles a "fascist" and "murderer", while the opposition leader has been lambasting his rival as "incompetent" and "illegitimate" since Maduro won April's disputed election by 1.5 percentage points. More...

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