The governments of Venezuela and Cuba today commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement, signed by Commanders Fidel Castro (1926-2016) and Hugo Chávez (1954-2013).
The date was celebrated with a floral offering before the sarcophagus of the Liberator Simón Bolívar in the National Pantheon, in a ceremony presided over by Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister for Latin America, Rander Peña, and Cuban Ambassador to Caracas, Jorge Mayo.
Representatives of the island’s diplomatic corps and the Medical Mission serving in the Bolivarian Republic also attended the event.
In a statement released in an audiovisual presentation on his Telegram account, Peña Nieto thanked the Cuban people for their example, moral, political, and ethical strength, which “has inspired the peoples of Latin America and the world.”
He emphasized that “we will always remember” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel’s presentation today in Havana of more than 4.3 million signatures in support of the Venezuelan people and peace, sovereignty, and self-determination for our people.
The executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement emphasized that it constituted a reaffirmation “of who we are and fills us with great courage and strength.”
Peña emphasized that the Cuba-Venezuela Cooperation Agreement, the ideas of Fidel Castro and Commander Hugo Chávez, José Martí and Simón Bolívar, “are what can make us truly free.”
“When we say Cuba and Venezuela are one flag, it is more than a harangue; it is a firm statement of what we are and what we must always continue to be,” he reaffirmed.
More than 50,000 Havana residents representing all of Cuba participated this Friday in an act of solidarity with Venezuela, in which the brotherhood between the two peoples and governments was reaffirmed.
[ SOURCE : PRENSA LATINA ]
