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Mar 6, 2013 · Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died on Tuesday at the age of 58, had found a father figure when he struck a lasting friendship with Cuba's 86-year-old retired leader Fidel Castro.
That year, Chávez improved ideological ties with the Cuban government of Fidel Castro by signing an agreement under which Venezuela would supply Cuba with 53,000 barrels of oil per day at preferential rates, in return receiving 20,000 trained Cuban medics and educators.
Mar 6, 2013 · With his fiery revolutionary rhetoric, Mr Chavez was in many ways the ideological heir of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, taking on the mantle of left-wing opposition to US influence in Latin America.
Former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Council of State, Fidel Castro died of natural causes at 22:29 ( CST) on the evening of 25 November 2016, at the age of 90.
Nov 30, 2016 · Fidel is a mythical figure in Venezuela. Along with the late former president Hugo Chávez, Castro is the symbolic representation and heroic image of “ 21st Century Socialism ”. But the people...
Mar 5, 2013 · Chávez will be remembered as the most successful of Fidel Castro's emulators, the man who breathed new life into the old revolutionary dream. Starting in the 1960s,...
Mar 6, 2013 · For many outside observers, Chavez seemed to suck the oxygen out of the room with an ability to speechify that rivaled only his mentor Fidel Castro's. Support Among The Poor
