Paraguayan President-elect Fernando Lugo was all smiles as he and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez embraced, talked of a revolution for the poor and pledged to build a united Latin America.

But as the former Roman Catholic priest ended a three-nation tour Thursday that also included visits to Venezuela's leftist allies in Bolivia and Ecuador, political analysts predicted he will take a less radical approach to governing.

'He sees himself on the side of the progressive forces that want to change the relationship between Latin...
American countries and the United States,' said Fred Rossen, an analyst at the New York-based North American Congress on Latin America.