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Obama and Chavez shake hands
US President Barack Obama has taken the first step towards ushering in an era of new relations with another long-time foe of Washington by shaking hands with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
President Hugo Chávez today stressed the approach he had with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama at the recent Summit of the Americas, but emphasizedthat "the rule is there alive and kicking" and that his government will continue building socialism.
The president justified the Obama-friendly approach in the event of Trinidad and Tobago, indicating that the U.S. government had "a gesture" to give the friendly hand which he replied to develop, DPA reported.
"The hand, yes, the smile, yes, and once and twice and the third and fourth time and then the farewell came by and told me, by my friend, told him by, but no one is wrong because there the rule is alive and kicking. Hopefully Obama is, for dignity of his race, the last president of United States imperialism, "Chavez said at a ceremony in the central state of Carabobo.
He also expressed his desire in United States "is born a true democratic republic and the sister peoples of the world and hopefully be well."
"We continue to fight against this type of imperialism, against all forms of imperialism, of interference, intervention, whatever its source, and will continue, no matter what it costs us, build Venezuelan socialism and liberation," said Chavez, who had previous brushes with the chairman of the House Blanda, George W. Bush.
The president recounted incidents in Trinidad and Tobago on his meeting with Obama and said he "was a gesture that I have to admit," the closer.
He indicated that he was conversing with his colleague from Uruguay, Tabaré Vázquez, when "I see that Obama is the gentleman to direct me by the hand and gave the course, came with a smile and I gave the hand and that caused an uproar because there are people have come to believe that I am an animal, an ogre. "
"I am able to laugh. I gave him the hand and the next day a meeting was to give back. He said he did not come to talk about the past. I said that nice. It is impossible to talk about the future without talking about the past, impossible. Can not understand what we are today without knowing where we come from and much less planning the future, "he stressed.
He said that the day after Obama gave to Eduardo Galeano's book "The Open Veins of Latin America" as a response to what was said, since that work is collected by the painful past of the peoples of Latin America, which is a past endurance, and fight battles. "
"No one can understand the present without the past. We are all subjects of history," he said.
Earlier, Chavez insisted that the United States to lift economic embargo on Cuba and take a policy of respect towards the Caribbean island.
"From here we will continue demanding the U.S. government to remove the savage blockade on the Cuban people," he stressed.
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