Brazil and Venezuela ratify, strengthen their strategic alliance [View all]

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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff holds a photograph of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez given to her as a gift by Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during a ceremony inside the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Maduro is visiting several South American countries this week. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)


Brazil and Venezuela ratify their strategic alliance

Brasilia, May 9 (Prensa Latina) The Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, and Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, confirmed the strategic partnership between the two countries today and called for deepening existing cooperation in various economic sectors.

"Brazil has a strategic alliance with Venezuela and wants to deepen this cooperation in various areas, including food security," Rousseff stressed in statements to the press after holding a private dialogue with Maduro in the Planalto Presidential Palace.

She noted that with President Maduro of Venezuela, winner in the elections last April, "we will maintain the high level relationship we had with the emminent Hugo Chávez", who died in March.

"Today we reaffirm our commitment to a stronger relationship, a strategic partnership between our countries," Rousseff said noting that they had agreed to strengthen cooperation in the areas of food, energy, oil and agriculture, and supporting social development and building homes.

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