Katz, Mark N.2010-08-302010-08-302007-03-30https://hdl.handle.net/1920/5934© 2007 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Deposited with permission from UPI.com.Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi have met on several occasions and put on a show of being great friends and allies. Their friendship, though, appears to have little substance considering that while Chavez continues to revel in poor Venezuelan-American relations, Gadhafi has in recent years worked to improve Libyan-American ones. Yet while their relationship might not be of much interest, comparing them is, since Chavez is now pursuing an ambitious revolutionary agenda similar to the one that Gadhafi attempted earlier in his career.en-USInternational affairsChávez Frías, HugoQaddafi, MuammarArticle