Handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency press office showing the President of the US, Barack Obama (L), and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez (R) shaking hands in Port of Spain, on April 17, 2009. Obama defended on Sunday his amicable first encounter with Chavez, which critics back home assailed as naiive and "irresponsible".

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