2/24/08

Chavez salutes Raul Castro's election


During his regular Sunday Alo Presidente TV program, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez highlighted Raul Castro's election by the National Peoples Power Assembly as president of Cuba's Council of State.
Chavez stressed that the new president has been an inseparable partner of his brother Fidel Castro since the days of Moncada and the Sierra Maestra.
Raul has always been there, in silence but actively working, faithful to the revolution, to the Cuban people and to Fidel, the Venezuelan president affirmed.
The Venezuelan revolution owes many thanks Fidel Castro, Raul and the Cuban people.
Chavez also stressed Fidel Castro's conscious decision to renounce reelection.

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