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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/us-and-venezuela-relations-thaw.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Hugo Chavez, right (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-us-and-venezuela-relations-thaw.jpg" alt="Hillary Clinton shakes hands with Hugo Chavez, right (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>President Hugo Chavez and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shook hands and chatted briefly in a rare cordial encounter amid a diplomatic dispute that has left Venezuela and the United States without ambassadors in each other&#8217;s capitals.</p>
<p>The handshake came as leaders were milling about at the inauguration of new Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.</p>
<p>It was unclear what Mr Chavez and Mrs Clinton discussed.</p>
<p>Mr Chavez later described the interaction as a pleasant one, though he did not give much detail.</p>
<p>&#8220;We greeted each other,&#8221; he told reporters at the Brasilia airport. &#8220;She had a very spontaneous smile and I greeted her with the same effusiveness.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the past week, their governments have shown firmly entrenched stances as the United States revoked the Venezuelan ambassador&#8217;s visa in response to Mr Chavez&#8217;s refusal to accept the chosen US envoy.</p>
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