Bush and Chavez urged to talk it out

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the idea may be far-fetched, but he’d like to get US President George W. Bush and ardent US critic Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to sit down together and talk out their differences.

“I told President Bush that, before my term of office ends, I want to see him and Chavez seated at the same table to discuss their differences,” Silva told The Economist in an interview published yesterday on the magazine’s website.