Havana, Mar 5 (Prensa Latina) The first vice president of ICAP, Noemí Rabaza, considered today that the affinity of ideas between the historical leaders of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez, and the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, gave rise to an indestructible Latin American alliance.
“Chávez and Fidel are two giants who share the same path,” Rabaza said in a tribute to the Venezuelan politician at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his death.
“Having been recognized by the solidarity of the world as the Day of Latin American and Caribbean Dignity, his voice continues to resonate in every struggle, in every neighborhood that resists,” he said.
Alongside him, he stressed, is the immortal example of Fidel, beacon of the Cuban Revolution and architect of the links “between two peoples who decided to write their histories with letters of dignity.”
According to him, on his way, Chavez “found in Cuba not only an ally, but a mirror, because Fidel, with his audacity and vision, had already shown that a small Caribbean country could challenge the empire of history, and win.”
He also recalled the embrace that marked the beginning of the meeting between the two leaders in 1994, when Chavez arrived in Havana and Fidel received him in the rain, “without protocol, as one receives a brother.”
Since then, he commented, “Cuba and Venezuela share challenges and dreams.”
Our solidarity is the pulse of Revolutions that understood that true independence is built with education and health for all, with the certainty that no child should beg for justice, with the full emancipation of men and women, he said.
He also denounced that Venezuela and Cuba are victims of economic blockades and illegal sanctions imposed by the United States authorities, and of media attacks and sabotages orchestrated from US territory.
The empire cannot stand that we exist, that Cuba, despite everything, shows that science and humanism are more powerful weapons than missiles; it cannot stand that Venezuela, harassed and sabotaged, continues to raise social missions, he said.
They attack us, he said, because we are proof that another America is possible, “where the poor are not condemned to be poor, where the country belongs to those who work for it and where the flag of sovereignty is not negotiable.”
The ceremony was also attended by the Venezuelan ambassador to Cuba, Orlando Maneiro, who in a brief speech outlined Chavez’s career and described it as everlasting for Venezuela and the just causes of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Also participating were Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Anayansi Rodríguez, other officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government and the Communist Party of Cuba, representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Havana and members of various institutions.
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