Monday, March 28, 2011

Venezuela Chavez begins in Argentina .- toured Latin America to strengthen ties with allied governments

CARACAS, 28 Mar. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Argentina will begin on Monday in a regional tour will also include Uruguay, Bolivia and Colombia, where he will hold meetings with the leaders of those countries considered key players in the political and economic strategy the Bolivarian government.

In Argentina, Chávez will review with his counterpart, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, trade agreements, mainly aimed at energy, food, trade and tourism, fundamental axes of cooperation between Caracas and Buenos Aires for the agenda of 2011, the official Venezuelan Agency News (AVN). The Venezuelan president will also receive Rodolfo Walsh Prize, an award given by the University of La Plata for their work in the popular media.

Chavez will leave later to Montevideo for a meeting with President of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, which will discuss the cooperation agreements signed both nations in the areas of energy, trade and food security. On an unspecified date, the Venezuelan president will come to the Bolivian city of Cochabamba to meet with his counterpart from that country, Evo Morales.

The meeting will focus on the agreements signed by the two countries in oil, basic industries, mining, agriculture, tourism, catering, trade, defense, culture and telecommunications, accurate AVN. Caracas and La Paz have deepened in recent years their trade, politics and culture as part of strategies to develop the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of our America (ALBA), a project led by Chavez and who have joined other countries in the region.

Official sources do not rule out that both presidents allies assess the situation in the Middle East because both Chavez and Morales have condemned the military intervention in Libya and expressed their solidarity with the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, said VNA. Chavez's tour will culminate on Friday in the historic city of Cartagena de Indias, in northern Colombia, where there will be a meeting with his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos, who could close an important energy agreement.

This will be the third meeting they will hold two leaders since the Saints took office last August, when Caracas and Bogota crossed one of the worst diplomatic crisis which greatly affected trade between these neighboring nations. The meeting will discuss the agreement that state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) will sell power to the public company Ecopetrol, which will serve to meet the demand in the departments Arauca, Norte de Santander and Vichada border with Venezuela.

Despite political differences, the governments of Santos and Chavez have endeavored to deepen economic approaches, a key issue in relations between the two trading partners that are strongly trade.

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