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03/06/13 -  Agencia de Información Nacional (Habana) - Statement by the Cuban Revolutionary Government on the Death of President Chavez
 
HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 5 (acn) The Cuban revolutionary government issued a
statement on the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, which took
place on Tuesday afternoon.
 
With deep and searing sorrow, our people and the revolutionary government
have known about the death of President Hugo Rafael Chavez and prepare to
pay a heartfelt and patriotic tribute in his entry into history as a Hero
of Our Americas, reads the statement.
 
We express our sincere condolences to his parents, brothers, his daughters
and his son, and to all his relatives which are already our own, in the
same way Chavez is also a son of Cuba and of Latin America and the
Caribbean and the world, adds the statement.
 
In this moment of profound sadness, we share the deepest feelings of
solidarity with the fraternal people of Venezuela, which we will accompany
in every circumstance. The Bolivarian Revolution will have our determined
and unlimited support in these difficult days, continues the text.
 
President Chavez has carried out a long battle throughout his young and
fruitful life. We will always remember him as a patriotic military at the
service of Venezuela and the Big Homeland; as an honest, lucid, audacious
and brave revolutionary fighter; as leader and supreme commander who
reincarnated Bolivar to do what he couldn't finish; founder of the
Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas and of the Community of Latin American
and Caribbean States. His example will guide us in the next battles,
concludes the statement.