Chavez, Evo Ratify Economic
and Social Integration
CARACAS - President Hugo Chavez highlighted
the importance of the visit of his Bolivian
counterpart Evo Morales to Venezuela, the
first one in a series of quarterly meetings
that will strengthen the ties of friendship
and bi-national cooperation.
The talks between the statesmen will focus
on cooperative projects for the next five
years, according to a schedule which began
to be discussed in La Paz last week in the
presence of Venezuelan Foreign Minister
Nicolas Maduro.
After welcoming Morales at the airport,
Chavez said the agenda of the visit includes
tours of the country's development zones
among which stands a former large estate
that became a productive unit of new type.
"We are coming together and now we do it
forever, on the same soil, in a single
breeze, under the same sky, with great love.
Only through this we will accomplish the
great South American homeland," said the
head of state during the reception at the
international airport in Barinas.
He added he has the dream of uniting
Venezuela and Bolivia through a long railway
in the south.
"Evo comes with 500 years behind him, with
the struggles of the Inca, the Aymara, with
that great socialist world that these South
American lands were before the arrival of
the Spanish invaders".
After the ceremony that honored him at the
airport, Morales confirmed the profound ties
of friendship between the two nations.
"There is a huge brotherhood between
Venezuela and Bolivia, I am very happy to be
here", he told reporters. |
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