Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a meeting with mayors and governors at Miraflores Palace in Caracas January 8, 2014. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
CARACAS (Reuters) - After months of insults, Venezuela's president and opposition leader on Wednesday shook hands for the first time since their bitter election standoff last year - at a meeting about chronic violent crime prompted by the roadside murder of a popular beauty queen.
President Nicolas Maduro routinely calls Henrique Capriles a "fascist" and "murderer", while the opposition leader has been lambasting his rival as "incompetent" and "illegitimate" since Maduro won April's disputed election by 1.5 percentage points.
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