Brazil aims to be Cuba's top partner, diplomat says

Source: EFE News Services

October 17, 2008]

Brazil aims to be Cuba's top partner, diplomat says

(EFE Ingles Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Havana, Oct 17 (EFE).- The senior career official in Brazil's Foreign Ministry said here Friday that his country aims to become Cuba's principal economic and political partner.

"We want to be the No. 1 partner of Cuba in its process of economic and social development, and also in political relations," Samuel Pinheiro said at the start of a meeting in Havana with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.

Pinheiro pointed out that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva gives "a very special, very personal attention" to ties with Cuba, especially to efforts aimed at boosting bilateral economic links.

Lula visited Cuba earlier this year for talks with Fidel and Raul Castro that signaled Brasilia's heightened interest in the Caribbean nation, apparently spurred by Raul's elevation to the Cuban presidency.


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Trip made to Cuba earlier this year by Lula da Silva.

:popcorn:

He's been in hibernation on some things, slowly transforming his fatherland from a fascist hellhole into a new, socially-oriented country.

Nice to be wrong sometimes. :)

"Chavez, the dictator" is getting really old, and doesn't hold up well when people get actual facts about Venezuela. So they've moved on to that "dictator" Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia, who just kicked the U.S.-Bushwhack ambassador's ass out of his country for meddling (--funding, training and organizing fascist secessionists, who, a few weeks ago, machine-gunned 30 unarmed indigenous farmers, blew up a gas pipeline, trashed government and NGO buildings, and beat up on the police and soldiers, and marched into indigenous neighborhoods and beat up on Bolivia's poorest people). Guy must be a "dictator" to dare to oppose Bushwhack plans to take over his country. The 67% of the vote Morales won on the referendum on his presidency is just more evidence that he is a "dictator," natch.

And then there's that "dictator" Rafael Correa, in Ecuador, who won election with 60% of the vote, and just won another election, on the proposed new Constitution that, among other things, gives legal standing to Nature itself, and the right of Nature and its critters and ecosystems to exist and to function properly. Now that is tyrannical! Dictator! Dictator! And all of them "friends of Fidel Castro"! And, not only that, friends of each other.

But Lula da Silva! Ah! "Dictator of Brazil, friend of Fidel Castro"!

When leftist Fernando Lugo was recently elected president of Paraguay, overturning 61 years of rightwing rule, Evo Morales sent him this message: "Welcome to the Axis of Evil!"

Hey, Lulu! WELCOME TO THE "AXIS OF EVIL"!

This is starting to get like a bad Austin Powers movie.

:toast: :applause:

The Monroe Doctrine is truly dead.