The ceremony took place at the National Pantheon where the mortal remains of El Libertador Simon Bolivar rest, and the ceremony was also attended by the first vice president of the National Assembly (parliament), Pedro Infante, and the vice-president of International Affairs of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Tania Diaz.
There were also attending the activity the Admirar in Chief and Mayor of Caracas, Carmen Melendez; the deputy foreign minister for Latin America and Africa, Mauricio Rodriguez and Yuri Pimentel; the accredited diplomatic corps; deputies; the president of the Bolivarian Socialist Workers Union, Wills Rangel, and representatives of the island’s State Mission.
The diplomat from Havana, the minister for foreign affairs and international trade and other high authorities signed the book that recorded the solemn act in tribute to the centenary of the birth of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.
In statements to Prensa Latina, the PSUV member of parliament Jorge Arreaza said that being able to measure the magnitude of the Commander-in-Chief of the island in the twentieth century and those who are to come “is a very difficult task because he was a defender of the oppressed peoples”.
He also invested all his time in seeking to make these peoples happier, starting from liberation and freedom and with “his wisdom and his science” sought the ways to overcome the capitalist system and offer it a firm alternative to the world to walk on other paths that do not lead us to the destruction of the planet.
He stressed that Fidel Castro was the “champion of solidarity because he knew how to be in solidarity with other peoples and Commander Hugo Chavez, who said that Fidel was like his father or brother, learned a lot from the Cuban leader and “we in Venezuela, the Bolivarian Revolution and the Venezuelan people owe a lot of thanks to him and to Cuba.”
The Bolivarian politician reflected that the peoples of the world, from our America to Asia, through Africa and even the North, “owe Fidel Castro a lot because he taught us that you can be human, even in the full boom of capitalism.”
This solemn ceremony was part of the central activities organized by Cubans and Venezuelans to honor the revolutionary born in Biran, in the current eastern province of Holguin, on August 13, 1926. whose legacy and imprint are commemorated by millions of people around the world.
For the afternoon of this Thursday is scheduled a cultural political event at the National Theater, in Caracas, with which they will close the official events.
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