CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday denounced a “hate campaign” aimed at Donald Trump, saying the US president-elect’s administration would not be “worse” than Barack Obama’s. “Big international media have speculated a lot,” he told reporters. “We are surprised by the hate campaign against Donald Trump – brutal – in the whole world, in the western world, in the United States.”The socialist president said he will wait until Trump takes over the White House on Friday before making judgments on the incoming US president’s foreign policy. During the 2016 US election the Venezuelan government voiced anger over parallels drawn between Trump and the late former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. The US has had a strained relationship with the Latin American country since Chavez – famous for his anti-American rhetoric – took over as its president in 1999.

Source: New Strait Times January 17, 2017 05:51 UTC