the president of VenezuelaNicolás Maduro, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Cuba, Alejandro Gil Fernández, reviewed this Friday in Caracas the cooperation agenda between their respective countries, during a meeting also attended by the Executive Vice President of the South American country, Delcy Rodríguez.
The information was broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), which broadcast the images of the meeting between Maduro and Gil, in which neither offered statements.
However, Maduro did refer to the meeting on his Twitter account, a space in which he acknowledged the review of the “broad map of cooperation” that two countries are carrying out in different sectors, while highlighting the “unbreakable brotherhood” between Cuba and Cuba. Venezuela.
the president of #Venezuela ??, @NicolasMaduromet this Friday with the deputy prime minister of #Cuba ??, @AlejandroGilFas part of the collaboration agenda between both nations https://t.co/IyXpZVXSTR
– teleSUR TV (@teleSURtv) August 27, 2022
Alejandro Gil, Minister of Economy and Planning, has been on a working visit to the South American nation since last August 24, in which he has developed an intense work agenda, including this meeting, which also included the participation of the Minister of Communication of Venezuela, Freddy Ñáñez, as well as the Cuban ambassador in Caracas, Dagoberto Rodríguez, and the deputy minister of Foreign Trade of the island nation, Roberto López.
In accordance with information of Cubadebate, Gil also met with Delcy Rodríguez to review the progress of bilateral relations. The Venezuelan vice president, who visited Cuba in January, March and July 2021, returned last April to review agreements between the two governments.
On the other hand, the Antillean deputy minister “exchanged with officials from the island’s embassy here about the Cuban reality and shared with the collaborators at the Salvador Allende Comprehensive Diagnostic Center.”
Since 2000, Venezuela and Cuba have maintained a Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement in the health, economy, education, sports, communication, food, science and energy sectors, which have contributed to the subsistence of the two nations in the face of a group of economic blockade measures imposed by different US administrations.
RT @biblewords3: @AlejandroGilFDeputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Planning of #Cubavisited the “Salvador Allende” Comprehensive Health Center (CSI), Chuao, state #Miranda, #Venezuela.#CubaForPeace #CubaForLife #CubaHonor
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— Cuban Medical Mission in Mérida. Official! (@cubacooperaveME) August 26, 2022
Two of the fundamental agreements between Cuba and Venezuela they have to do with the sale of crude oil at preferential prices from Caracas to Havana, and the collaboration of qualified Cuban professionals – fundamentally in health and education – who carry out missions in all the regions of the South American country.
As proof of the deep relations of brotherhood, Venezuela was, along with Mexico, one of the countries that most supported Cuba in extinguishing the recent fire at the Matanzas Supertanker Base, where 16 people died and four large fuel tanks were destroyed. fuels.
The Antillean president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, highlighted the support of the South American country a little over a week ago and conveyed “the gratitude and affection of the Cubans.”
With information from EFE
