Invited by the Embassy of Venezuela to the activity in tribute to President Hugo Chávez Frías on the fifth anniversary of his physical disappearance, the Ambassador of Cuba in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Vilma Reyes Valdespino, highlighted the enormous contribution of the eternal Commander to the theory and the practice of the emancipation of man and the unity of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Ambassador highlighted the historical link between Cuba and Venezuela, their heroes and their leaders. Hand in hand with the thought of the national Hero José Martí and the reflections and interviews of the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, the Cuban diplomat shared with the audience the coincidental vision of Bolívar and Martí about the danger of imperialism for the lands of our America, as well like the early thought of Fidel in relation to the Latin American leadership that was in conditions to assume Venezuela, the land of the Liberator.
The Ambassador recalled Fidel's first visit to Caracas in January 1959, the first meeting between Fidel and Chávez in 1994, the victory of Chávez in the elections in 1998, the consolidation of the Bolivarian Republic, the extraordinary events of April 2002, when the people did not allow the coup-making oligarchy to take away the dream that the nascent Revolution had just shown them, and they reinstated their president.
The Cuban diplomat referred the contribution of Chávez and Fidel to the strengthening of Latin American and Caribbean integration through the promotion of both leaders in the creation of ALBA-TCP, Petrocaribe and CELAC.
The head of the Cuban Mission concluded her speech with a call to continue and magnify the legacy of Hugo Chávez and defend Venezuela against destabilizing maneuvers, economic and media war, as well as threats of aggression from the United States and the regional right forces