Vice President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro (Archive Photo)
Latin America News – The vice president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, read a letter from President Hugo Chavez addressed to other leaders in the region during the First Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU).
“Sorry I cannot attend this event in Santiago, Chile, but is known to all of you and all that since December last year I am struggling with my health again in revolutionary Cuba and sister’s Why these lines are a way of making me This “reads the letter.
The letter calls for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba and calls for regional integration in Latin America, besides being full of quotations and references to the Venezuelan liberator Simon Bolivar, the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges and the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.
Vice President Maduro took up to 15 minutes to read the letter to the leaders attending the summit CELAC-EU.
This is the first post in weeks of Hugo Chavez, who has not appeared in public since he underwent in December the fourth operation in Havana to treat their cancer.
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