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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:40:26 -0400
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Subject: Fidel an Example of Dignity for Our Continent - Chavez
Fidel an Example of Dignity for Our Continent - Chavez
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Hugo Chavez Welcomes Fidel to Venezuela
"FIDEL IS AN EXAMPLE OF DIGNITY FOR OUR CONTINENT"
"I am giving my welcome to our brother, our friend, the revolutionary solder
that has been an example of dignity for this whole continent," President
Hugo Chavez said at the official ceremony that took place in Maiquetia
International Airport, where the plane that brought Commander in Chief Fidel
Castro landed a few minutes earlier.
Fidel is traveling to Venezuela for an official state visit, invited by
President Hugo Chavez, who went up to the aircraft to meet his guest, as the
first part of a moving ceremony that took place later at the tarmac of the
air terminal.
President Chavez said that he was embracing Fidel in the name of all the
Venezuelans, with all his heart, united as the two nations are by the glory
of both Bolivar and Marti.
Fidel gave thanks for the invitation to visit the State of Bolivar and for
also for the Order of the Angostura Congress, a decoration that was confered
to him last March by a decision of Governor Antonio Rojas Suarez and the
civilian, eclesiastical and military authorities of that Venezuelan state.
The Cuban President highlighted the historic importance of Ciudad Bolivar,
the capital city of the state of the same name, where 182 years ago the
Convention that gave birth to the Republic of the Great Colombia took place
under the personal guidance of Simon Bolivar.
Fidel said that he was happy to arrive at his 75th birthday in the land of
Bolivar, and that it was like been born again, saying that he wanted to
visit that place so closely linked to the history of Venezuela, where now an
important delegation of Cuban intellectuals and artists is visiting.
President Castro added that in the name of the delegation that he is heading
he was sending a salute to all the Venezuelans with those unforgettable
words of Jose Marti: Give me Venezuela in whatever I can serve, she has in
me a son.
The two leaders watched the official ceremony of popular welcome at the
Maiquetia Airport, where Fidel was greeted warmly by a crowd and received a
salute and flowers from a group of children.
Fidel then introduced the delegation that he is heading, including Felipe
Perez Roque, the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marta Lomas, the
Minister of Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation, Jose Miyar Barrueco
and Carlos Valenciaga, Secretary and Member of the Council of State.
The Cuban president saluted Venezuelan personalities and officials. Fidel
and Chavez joked about their fraternal baseball games and the host suggested
that a domino game would be good to even out the results.
Afterwards the two Presidents and Jacques Diouf, FAO Director General,
attended a signing ceremony for an FAO agreement granting resources for
agricultural development to Venezuela. The projects will benefit from the
participation of Cuban technical personnel who will be sent to Venezuela.
Currrently, a group of Cuban physicians and other health-care workers, as
well as several hundred sports trainers and coaches, are providing their
cooperation to Venezuela.
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