Prior to Obama visit: Cuba honors Maduro

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Prior to Obama visit: Cuba honors Maduro

The visit of US President Barack Obama is considered historically: Defiant Cuba’s head of state, Castro is located immediately in front of the Venezuelan President, Maduro. Almost provocatively, he pinned the allies to the highest order.

The President of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, received on his visit in Havana, the highest award of the Communist Caribbean state, the José Martí order. To justify the Cuban government, said that Maduro was always with “courage and intelligence” against interference in the internal Affairs of his country to the military. Bluntly, it was played on the latter’s attitude towards the USA, and this two days before the groundbreaking and historically valued the visit of U.S. President Barack Obama.

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Is praised Maduro’s opposition to the Obama signed a decree in which Venezuela “unfairly” as a threat to the United States, the leaders in Havana. The relationship between the US and Venezuela tense for years. Maduro is, as well as his predecessor Hugo Chávez, a sharp opponent of the US strategy in Latin America.

As a sign of solidarity among socialists head of state, Raul Castro, Maduro (picture left) was solemnly the highest decoration of Cuba to the lapel.

Obama is starting Sunday for three days as a guest in Cuba. It is the first trip by a U.S. head of state in the Caribbean country since the year 1928. Obama and Raúl Castro had initiated the end of 2014, a rapprochement between the two former sworn enemies from the days of the Cold war.

In the summer of 2015, which opened in Cuba and the U.S. embassies. The current visit is expected to contribute according to information from Washington to speed up the process of normalization between the two States.

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