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The Foreign Affairs Ministera Nicolás Maduro and Felipe Pérez highlighted the importance of the Venezuela-Cuba relations during his speech at Cuba-Venezuela Meeting on the Mechanism for Political Consultation held on Wednesday in La Havana, Cuba.
Furthermore, Minister Maduro stated that the Mechanism for Political Consultation has been useful and pertinent since it allows both countries synchronizing the answers. “Our ties go far beyond the borders: it is a deep, historical, and strategic brotherhood, which has made us became the same people, the same nation, just as our liberators dreamed of”, Maduro stated. After the opening ceremony of the meeting, Maduro said that the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution should make Latin American countries be more confident and organize better. In addition, he said that it is time to be independent and follow a new leadership that leaves behind the old schemes imposed by the neoliberal model. It intends to go beyond those values, and break any kind of subordination. “There is a trend that breaks that domination; which is sovereign and looks for a social justice refreshing the continent and filling it with hope, optimism and strength. We are living times of independence being standing, awake and self-confident”, Minister Maduro said. He also highlighted the work carried out by thousand of Cubans in Venezuela, who “have taught what true love means when it comes from solidarity and revolutionary conviction”, he added. Venezuela and Cuba develop several joint projects in the fields of education, culture, sport and health; and the commercial and service exchange amounting to $7,000 billion per year. Pérez Roque stated that those ties have had a sustained deepening which makes an outstanding balance in the last years. Bolivarian News Agency (ABN) | ||
