Cuba's Castro consoles ally Maduro after Venezuela vote setback
Monday, December 07, 2015 | 8:52 AM
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) – Cuba's President Raul Castro consoled his
Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro Monday, following a historic
election defeat which handed control of Congress to the opposition.
The Cuban leader expressed "admiration" for the "extraordinary battle"
waged by Maduro, the handpicked successor of late president Hugo Chavez,
who now will be forced to work with an opposition-dominated Congress.
"Dear Maduro: I have followed minute by minute, the extraordinary battle
that has been waged," Castro wrote in the state-run Granma newspaper.
"I am certain that new victories will come to the Bolivarian
Revolution," the Cuban president wrote, referring to the socialist
policies put in place by the firebrand Chavez.
A center-right coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) won a
majority of 99 out of 167 legislative seats in Sunday's vote, handing
control of Congress to the opposition for the first time in 16 years, as
voters punished the socialist government for an economic crisis and
insecurity in the oil-rich nation.
Maduro promptly accepted the defeat, a blow to his leadership and the
"revolution" of "21st century socialism" launched under Chavez.
Source: Cuba's Castro consoles ally Maduro after Venezuela vote setback
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