Letter from Chavez calls for regional unit, supports Cuba and condemns UK on the Falklands
Vice-president Nicolas Maduro, read an eleven page letter he said was written by ailing President Hugo Chavez in which the Venezuelan leader calls for Latinamerican unit, praises Cuba’s chairmanship of CELAC group and takes time to support Argentina’s claims over the Falkland/Malvinas Islands.
“I regret not being able to be at the Santiago de Chile appointment but it is known by all of you that since last December I’m again battling for my health in revolutionary and sister Cuba. These lines thus are but a way of making myself present at the summit”, said Chavez in the letter addressed to the leaders from the Community of Latinamerican and Caribbean States meeting in Santiago de Chile on Monday.
Chavez has been in Cuba since mid December when he went his fourth cancer surgery in 18 months and which according to official reports has suffered several complications such as respiratory insufficiency.
“I rest all my conviction on reiterating that “or we build an only big motherland or we will have no motherland” writes Chavez in a letter full of literary and thinkers quotes, such as Simon Bolivar, Jorge Luis Borges and the poet Pablo Neruda.
Chavez was one of the promoters of CELAC to counterbalance the Organization of American States, OAS, where the influence of the ‘empire’ and the target of his attacks where the US has a predominant influence.
“Since that December 2011 when we founded in Caracas CELAC, world events have but ratified the extraordinary importance of that step forward we agreed on then”, recalls the Venezuelan leader.
The letter also celebrated Cuban President Raul Castro's assumption of the rotating presidency of CELAC.
“After 30 years of resisting this criminal imperial blockade, Latin America and the Caribbean are saying to the US, in one voice, that all your attempts to leave out Cuba are failing,” it added.
Maduro made no comments about the letter after reading it to other leaders. He has been the government's top public figure while Chavez remains in Cuba. The letter was highly anticipated after Venezuelan officials said it would show that Chavez remains lucid and in charge.
Chilean President and summit host Sebastian Piñera has said several times that the gathered leaders are praying for Chavez's recovery. In the letter, Chavez says he'll be watching from Havana and “praying for the complete and excellent development of CELAC.”
The letter is classic Chavez, urging the leaders to work together on a broad range of issues, from energy policies to literacy. It defends Argentina's position on the Falklands, which are “Islands the country says were stolen from them by Britain 180 years ago”.
“The fight continues,” the letter said. “There is more than one who is brave, from here to Patagonia.”
As Maduro finished reading, television images showed Chavez's signature in red ink at the bottom of the letter.
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Same old same old from a soon to be very has been.
CFK didn't get her way at the CELAC conference, no statement supporting Argentina on the Falklands, and now she's badgering a dying man into supporting her.
You'd really think that he would have more important things to worry about, namely his family, and then Venezuela.
Even he doesn't sound all that convinced haha.
I'm sure he just penned that just so she would shut up and stop bothering him...............
What, so far beheind the rest of the world you never heard of Tele Conferencing?
Could it be they could not find a medium or a Ouija Board.
Biggest bunch of dishonest asssholes on the planet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think we should be told.
What a load of of bollocks, not only bollocks, but amature bollocks at that. They should have consulted the Argentines, they could have done much better than this pathetic effort at propoganda, after all they have decades of experience at it.
odd turn of phrase that... its not exactly a hardened, utterly convinced and backed-up stance is it...
“well, Argentina SAYS it was stolen”...
weak
however, most noble of chubby to communicate with fellow dictators on issues that do not concern him, yet he deems it unnecessary to inform his own peasants regarding his health and venezuela's lack of leadership, i guess theres a good reason why they didnt hook up a live video feed to chubby, although he was well enough to write a letter yet not well enough to talk live, most strange!
Im lonely here,
Come and stay with me CFK,
Fight the brits, drag our friends to war, and lose again, and in your death throws, I will be there to carry you to hell? [ oops we mean paradise]
And will she follow him to hell,
No she wont ?
She will let south America follow him to hell,
She will let other fight her fight,
She will let other die in her stead,
But she will just lap the glory ,
Or blame others when it all goes wrong.
Letters of the dead, should remain just.
[Dead]
mmm, but is he dead, or is this another trick.
'Chavez et al created CELAC to counterbalance OAS, the Organization of American States, ... too much influence of ‘empire’ in the OAS, ... and the OAS has a predominant US influence.'
I have so many friends from the United States of America who would be SO quick to remind me that they had a successful War of Independence to escape from Empire.
No,
the legacy of Empires is to be found in CELAC itself. The constituent nations of CELAC are the products of empire ... and, however hard they try to re-write their histories, they cannot escape the fact that they are not escaping from 'empire' but from one member who is overtly strong.
CELAC is itself an attempt, however amateur, to create a new empire.
Mister Bolivar and Mister Marx would be proud of their amateur attempt.
It's about level for those who think he is still alive and those who think he has croaked.
But thanks guys, I came late to this topic but I have had a few chuckles reading your posts.
Sometimes they end up like north Korea, or some other tin pot lunatic,
You will always need some outside influences,
You just can’t isolate yourselves and hid your head in the sand,
Most of these countries in this CELAC
Do not exactly have a good past do they,
Rather a bad modern reputation.
Just a thought .
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Ok Chavez, join your navy in sailing to the Falklands to prove how brave you are.
Best of luck (surviving in one piece ) when you do your 'revolutionary' steps onto the Falklands and get a warm welcome from the defences.
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LMFAO
And become part of the [dead Chavez scrolls]..lol.
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He is sleeping with the fish’s .lol.
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Brilliant! LOLs
Unprecedented for someone just reelected!
For someone known for his verbosity, this supposed 11 page letter is all he has produced. No recordings. No speeches.
Nothing for his people.
Venezuela urgently needs a currency devaluation but no one is willing to pull that trigger..... especially if there might be a new election.
In my opinion, the letter is a fake made by the Cuban and Venezuela governments. Two purposes, keep Venezuela from an election and bolster Castro's role as head of CELAC.
Argentina run by a hormonal imbalance and Botox junkie and delusional how can the Argentineans take the abuse! They must be masochist.
Uruguay runs by a nice guy but incompetent and stupid how can you take this amateur as president.
Bolivia no comment the idiot in Bolivia speaks stupidity on his own.
Correa well run by Venezuela.
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