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Cuba reaffirms confidence in the
future of the Chilean people
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, 12 March—Cuba’s Vice President
Carlos Lage reaffirmed here today his confidence in
the future of Chile and wished new President
Michelle Bachelet success in her term of office.
“We
totally share the hopes of the Chilean people at
this historic moment,” affirmed the leader, who
arrived Friday in Santiago accompanied by a Cuban
delegation to attend the investiture ceremonies,
reported PL.
Today Lage and his delegation placed a wreaths at
the monuments guarding the remains of President
Salvador Allende (1970-1973) and those of the
emblematic communist leader Gladys Marin, in the
capital city’s general cemetery.
They
also visited the monument to the “Chilean
Internationalist Combatants, the resting place for
the remains of more than one dozen militants from
distinct leftist organizations who fell fighting in
Nicaragua and El Salvador in the 70’s.
The
Cuban delegation included Foreign Minister Felipe
Pérez Roque; Yilliam Jiménez, deputy minister of
foreign affairs; and José Arbezú, deputy director of
the International Relations Department of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party, among
others.
Lage
and Pérez Roque were received hours after their
arrival by Bachelet in a meeting that Cuban sources
described as friendly and relaxed, in which they
spoke of topics related to the future of relations
between the two nations.
In a
statement to journalists, the Cuban vice president
emphasized that Latin America today is experiencing
a “new awakening” as a result of the “total failure
of neoliberalism”, inequalities and the lack of any
solution to the fundamental problems confronting its
people.
He
underlined that the process has also been
accelerated by the hegemonic and imperialist
policies of the United States, “using imposition and
lies as tools for trying to dominate the world,”
explained Lage. |
