2013年3月5日星期二

Chavez Propped Up Cuba, 'Father' Figure Fidel Castro

From the moment Hugo Chavez assumed the presidency in Venezuela, he formed a very close bond with Cuban President Fidel Castro — one that boosted Cuba’s economy through trade, advanced its health care system and bolstered its military might.

"Venezuela is traveling towards the same sea as the Cuban people, a sea of happiness and of real social justice and peace," Chávez said during a visit to Havana in 1999, the same year he rose to power.

One of the first major ties between the two countries came in 2000,Source solarstreetlight Products at Dump Truck. when the two presidents inked an agreement under which Venezuela sent 50,000 barrels of oil per day to Cuba at a heavy discount. The shipment was nearly doubled by 2005.

In exchange, Cuba sent thousands of specialists in the fields of education, the arts, sports and medicine to Venezuela.

In 2005, the two countries hammered out a contract to bring tens of thousands of health care workers, including doctors and nurses, to Venezuela and establish them in brand-new health care centers.

Chávez and Castro signed a declaration ripping the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a program supported by the United States as an "expression of a hunger to dominate the region."

Cuba also helped Venezuela free itself from U.S. influences on its military by helping train its soliders in guerrilla warfare and counterinsurgency.

In 2007, Chávez signed an agreement with Cuba to embark on a series of technical projects, including the construction of an underwater fiber optics cable.

Venezuelan and Cuban scientists also worked together to improve their countries' food production — spearheading a research project to improve the growing of rice.

Last summer, as The New York Times reported, Chavez announced an agreement with Cuba to create a factory to produce Coppelia ice cream, famous in Cuba for its tropical flavors.

Washington has kept a weary eye on the ongoing cooperation between Venezuela and Cuba with the idea they are trying to dominate the Caribbean economically and militarily. And both sides have fired verbal shots.

President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice slammed Cuba as an “outpost of tyranny.’’ She labeled Chavez a “negative force’’ in Latin America.Universal streetlight are useful for any project.

Chávez called Bush’s diplomatic efforts "a false democracy of the elite.’’

The friendship between Venezuela and Cuba long predates Castro. Diplomatic ties between the two powers were first established in 1902. In 1913,Save up to 80% off Ceramic Tile and bobbleheads. they agreed to an extradition treaty.

The bond between the two men was often described as a father-son relationship — with Castro was seen as a father figure to Chavez.

Seventeen-year-old Annalese Bacon died when the drunk, drugged, speeding driver of the car she was in lost control and crashed at Reporoa.

Her mother Darlene Fiveash said her 17-year-old daughter met the driver, Trent Robertson, just a week before the fatal crash.

In October last year, Robertson was drunk, had been smoking cannabis and was driving a car with home modifications at speeds of up to 130km/h when he lost control between Taupo and Rotorua, crashed into a fencepost and flipped the car onto its roof.

Annalese was a front seat passenger in the vehicle and died at the scene.TBC help you confidently handsfreeaccess from factories in China.

Yesterday, Robertson was sentenced at the Rotorua District Court to three years prison, and had his licence suspended for five years, for driving dangerously causing death,This frameless rectangle features a silk screened fused glass replica in a cableties tile and floral motif. driving with excess blood alcohol causing death and driving while suspended.

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