Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump may have an unexpected ally: Venezuela’s socialist and much-criticized President Nicolas Maduro. Just days ahead of the inauguration in Washington, Maduro said he was taking a wait-and-see, but hopeful, stance toward the incoming president, while slamming the record of outgoing President Barack Obama. “There’s been a brutal hate campaign against Trump all over the world,” Maduro said late Monday at a news conference with OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo in Caracas. “I say let’s wait and see. All I’ll say is that he won’t be worse than Obama.” Venezuela, the South American country with the world’s largest crude reserves, has long had an acrimonious relationship with the U.S., the biggest buyer of its oil. Late President Hugo Chavez famously once called former President George W. Bush “the devil” at a speech before the United Nations General Assembly. Tensions flared up again […]