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Latin America is in better conditions for
integration, Chávez affirms
BY RONALD SUAREZ RIVAS & ALBERTO
BORREGO (photo)
—Granma daily special correspondents
CARACAS, December 5.—President
Hugo Chávez of Venezuela has assured that Latin
America is now in better conditions than ever before
to achieve genuine integration and highlighted
Cuba’s “exceptional” role in this new era in which
“horizons are continuing to brighten.”
Even in the darkest nights, he
said, Cuba maintained itself like a red star in the
firmament of the continent.
In his first press conference
after his reelection in last Sunday’s elections,
Chávez reiterated that he is to continue promoting
the Venezuelan road to socialism and that in the
next few weeks, after his return from a tour of the
MERCOSUR countries and Bolivia, he will be convening
a Constituent Assembly to modify the nation’s
constitution.
He affirmed that the seven
million-plus compatriots who gave him their vote did
not do so thinking of a man or a slogan, but of a
political project, and invited all Venezuelans to
contribute ideas for constructing a nation rooted in
“our roots” and to continue making democracy more
profound.
The Bolivarian leader
acknowledged the attitude of the sectors of the
opposition who accepted the result of the elections,
and refused to follow the game of the extremists who
wanted to make the process end in violence, and
invited them to participate in the creation of a new
Venezuela.
Also this Tuesday, the National
Electoral Council (CNE) officially declared Chávez
as reelected president of the Republic for the
period 2007-2013. |
