Maduro flew to Havana the following day
to congratulate him and map out further cooperation between the two countries
that became strategic allies in 2000 with the rise to power in Venezuela of
socialist leader Hugo Chávez. “We come to renew hope, to renew dreams and …
above all, to visualise the 10 years ahead,” Maduro told Cuban state-run media
shortly before meeting with Díaz-Canel in the Palace of the Revolution. Venezuela,
which holds the world’s largest oil reserves, exchanges oil for Cuban medical
and other technical services, although deliveries have dropped over the past
few years, hurting Cuba’s already struggling economy. In a change from official
events during the nearly 60 years that the Castro brothers led Cuba,
Díaz-Canel’s wife Lis Cuesta attended the welcome ceremony at the Palace of the
Revolution as First Lady. More…
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