Brian Padden
Published October 10, 2012
President Hugo Chavez's election victory appears to mean that relations between Venezuela and the United States will remained strained. VOA's Brian Padden reports that Mr. Chavez has been a fierce critic of the U.S. while nurturing friendships with U.S. adversaries like Cuba, Iran, and Syria, and his first news conference after his election seemed to reinforce some of those positions.