Chavez responds on radio to Fidel birthday gift

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walter Lippmann sent me this after I asked him about whether Cuba's
relations with Chavez have been affected by the fact that Venezuela has
stopped sending oil to Cuba as the government had agreed to.
Fred Feldman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Lippmann" <walterlx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "CubaNews" <CubaNews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:37 AM
Subject: Cuba's Castro presents Chavez with birthday gift


> Cuba's Castro presents Venezuela's Chavez with birthday gift
> EFE - 7/29/2002
>
> CARACAS - Cuban President Fidel Castro sent a painting
> entitled "Palmas Reales" (Royal Palms) to his Venezuelan
> counterpart, Hugo Chavez, who turned 48 on Sunday.
>
> Chavez received the gift sent by Castro at the end of his
> radio program "Alo, Presidente," which is transmitted from
> his native town of Sabaneta, in the western state of
> Barinas.
>
> "I thank Fidel, my friend, my brother, for this gesture,
> this gift," said an emotional Chavez about the painting,
> which is a work by Cuban artist Raul Fernandez, born in
> 1950.
>
> The painting depicts dusk among a large group of palm trees,
> the symbols of Cuba.
>
> "Fidel sent me some palm trees; he has sent us the heart of
> Cuba. I'm going to call it my 'Heart of Cuba.' ... Thank
> you, brother," exclaimed Chavez.
>
>
>


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