Luis Ars: In Cuba we feel at home ‘Cuba’ Granma

“Mr. President, it is a pleasure to have you here. Hello,” said on Wednesday morning the Politburo member and Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, upon receiving the Head of State at the seat of the Council of Ministers, in Revolution Square. The Bolivian Plurinational, His Excellency Luis Alberto Ars Catacura, who began an official visit to the Antilles grand.

As a “Day of Continuity”, Marrero Cruz valued the meeting, because the agenda that the distinguished person will live in these hours that began on Wednesday comes right after the summit of the XX ALBA-TCP (Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America – Our Peoples Trade Treaty), a historic meeting in which he participated Dear visitor.

“I want to formally welcome the government of the Republic in our country,” Marrero Cruz told President Luis Alberto Arce. He spoke to him, in the first place, of the positive example set by the Bolivian people in their transcendental struggle after the sad moment of the coup, a moment when an entire people rose up with a vote to restore a government that truly represented its people.”

The head of government of the Caribbean nation renewed to the visitor our “full solidarity” while thanking “the solidarity that the Bolivian people have always shown, in the first place, in fighting the embargo imposed by the United States” on the United States. In the same way, the Politburo member alluded to the donations that in these complex moments of the epidemic reached Cuba from the sister country in the south.

The Prime Minister stressed, in these hours of confrontation with Covid-19, that this support was decisive and strengthens the historical friendship that unites the two peoples, as well as the existing relations between the two governments.

“We are convinced that very interesting things will come out of this meeting to further strengthen the friendship,” commented the VIP host, who for his part expressed his gratitude for the always warm welcome from the Cuban people: “We feel loved at home and here we come also ready to work for Improving our relationships and the lives of our people.

On the Cuban side, the meeting was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Josefina Vidal. First Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment, Ana Teresita Gonzalez Fraga; Head of Agriculture Yedale Jesus Perez Prieto; and other officials in the chancellery. Among the members of the official delegation that paid the visit was His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Relations, Rogelio Maita Maita. As well as the President of Rural Development and Land, His Excellency Remy Rubén Gonzalez Attila, and other executives.