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Venezuelan president launches salsa music radio show

Xinhua, November 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro started a second career as an occasional host of a radio program featuring salsa music.

During the show's launch on Tuesday, Maduro even danced to a few beats, according to a photo released by his office.

The launch received much media coverage, even from the Middle East.

"After months of political tension in Venezuela, this Tuesday flaring tempers cooled and President Nicolas Maduro even danced," Iran's Spanish-language news website HispanTV reported.

Venezuela's socialist government and conservative opposition parties have begun a national dialogue aiming to solve the political crisis.

Broadcast from the presidential palace of Miraflores, in the capital Caracas, the program, called "The Hour of Salsa," is to air Monday to Friday from noon to 2 p.m.

"Sometimes I will be on a Monday, sometimes on a Friday," Maduro told reporters earlier this week. Endi