"Our generation will always celebrate the opportunity we had to live the time of two giants of the Revolution and Latin American integration: Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez", was the first post in X of the First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, yesterday, on the 11th anniversary of the physical departure of Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, leader of the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela.
Chávez felt, and thus exposed to the four winds, a wide sympathy for the Cuban revolutionary process and, especially, for Fidel, whom he loved like a father.
Of this beautiful friendship between Chávez and Fidel, between Cuba and Venezuela, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) spoke yesterday.
René González Barrios, director of the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, recalled how two Venezuelan expeditions came to the Island to support the fight against Spanish colonialism, and also went to the Sierra Maestra, in the last stage of independence.
Víctor Gaute López, ICAP's Vice-President, spoke of "the importance of knowing in depth all that legacy and the idea of continuing to visualize Chávez as a fact of the present, which continues to point out the route towards the definitive emancipation of the peoples".
Orlando Miguel Maneiro Gaspar invited to remember him as he was in life, maker of justice for the most humble; builder of the civic-military union of his people, whom he made protagonist of the transforming process that is the Bolivarian Revolution.