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Americas leaders urge steps to tackle crisis
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-04-19 09:04
The Venezuelan president addressed Obama, and said in English: "I want to be your friend," Noguera said. Obama smiled, but didn't acknowledge, or speak in response, the spokesman said. Earlier in the day, during a meeting between Obama and his counterparts from 12 South American countries, Chavez gave Obama a Spanish-language book on foreign exploitation of Latin America during the colonial years. The 1971 book, by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano and entitled "The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent," has a handwritten dedication from Chavez, "Para Obama con afecto" (To Obama with love).
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