Chavez: US-Venezuela Relations Will Improve with Obama Presidency

"Carora, December 14, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that relations between his nation and the United States can only improve under an Obama presidency, and he is ready to collaborate on issues such as drug trafficking, terrorism, and energy.

"There are winds in favor of relations between the Venezuelan government and the new president of the United States, Barack Obama. We must try energetically and with good faith to improve relations, and I am ready to do it," Chavez said on a Sunday political talk show, Jose Vicente Today, broadcast on a private television station... "