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Americas leaders urge steps to tackle crisis
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-04-19 09:04

Americas leaders urge steps to tackle crisis

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gives US President Barack Obama a copy of "Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina" by author Eduardo Galiano during a meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad April 18, 2009. [Xinhua]

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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