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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Hugo Chávez, the presidents, respectively, of Brazil and Venezuela, met June 27 in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, to address economic issues aimed at reinforcing bilateral cooperation between the two South American nations.
The two rulers initialed 21 agreements in the fields of liquefied natural gas, oil and energy, environment cooperation, telecommunications, foodstuff industry, and border surveillance, according to reports from AFP.
"Our relations are now at their peak, like never before in history. Our countries are set to become driving forces in the South American, Latin American and Caribbean integration process," stated Chávez.
Agreements were initialed in the areas of energy, particularly a survey on electric interconnection and a liquefied natural gas supply agreement between state firms PdVSA and Petrobras.
"We are showing that progress can be made toward actual integration among the peoples," said Lula. He stressed he was going back to Brazil feeling "happy" and certain that in Venezuela oil is an instrument to give the society a better future.
Chávez and Lula also initialed border cooperation agreements and pacts authorizing overflights. They also signed a letter of intent between two telecom corporations to lay a submarine fiber optic cable up to the states of Roraima and Amazônia, north Brazil.
Further, three food supply agreements were initialed providing for delivery over the next few months of 12,000 tons of soy oil, and 20,000 tons of chicken meat, among other items.
According to Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Nicolás Maduro, the presidential meeting "allowed for consolidation of political dependability between the two countries," at a time when some experts claim that Chávez and Lula have grown apart.
Pushing aside such rumors, Chávez warmly welcomed Lula at the Miraflores presidential palace, downtown Caracas, where the Brazilian ruler was paid military honors.
Lula was joined by a number of officials including Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, Mines and Energy Minister Edison Lobão, and Development Minister Miguel Jorge, as well as Lula's foreign aide Marco Aurélio Garcia.
Also accompanying Lula was Jorge Sergio Gabrielli, Petrobras CEO.
Chávez was joined, among others, by Foreign Minister Maduro, Finance Minister Alí Rodríguez and PdVSA CEO and Energy and Petroleum Minister Rafael Ramírez.
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- Funny, Chavez can produce nothing, except pushing a button to produce oil ! Oil NOT discovered and financed by him or his predecessors but with foreign money and foreign technologies. Despite the size of his country....HE CANT even produce enough food but imports most of it. Chavez like Bin the Crook is against food subsidizes but forget to say that he is selling gasoline at US$ 0.20 PER GALLON. Or said otherwise, 10 times more subsidized that subsidized agriculture in developed countries. He cant even produce toothpaste or detergents.
- Funny that Venezuela, with so much oil revenues, still has so much poverty !
- Funny that Argentina and Venezuela are cheating, lying and hiding on their real inflation rate. But quite normal coming from those in power. Sure they are good friends of Bin the Crook ! It could not be different.
- Funny that Argentina and Venezuela had their currencies declined against the week US$. Not many countries around the world
have been that bad.....in the last 5 years ! Even in Africa.
- Funny that in January 2008, Chavez took off 3 zeroes out of his currency and renamed it with a different name.
A trick used many, many times by Brazil and Argentina.
- Funny that the South American, LATAM and Caribeans countries have ONE THING IN COMMON : ADDICTED TO INFLATION !!!!!
Otherwise you would have had no reason to take off 3 zeroes.....here and there....several times in your history !
- Idiots and losers can only form a club called....UNSURE !!!!!!