The secretary of state joined her counterpart from the Netherlands, Maxime Verhagen,at a meeting at U.N.headquarters Friday previewing next week's council meeting.
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Outspoken and often wildly undiplomatic, Chavez thrived on the intransigence and widespread international unpopularity of the George W. Bush-era White House, never more so than when he referred to his then-US counterpart as "the devil" in addressing the U.N.