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Paraguayan president defends relations with Cuba and
Venezuela to Rumsfeld
ASUNCION.—Nicanor Duarte,
president of Paraguay, has defended the relations of
his government with Cuba and Venezuela to Donald
Rumsfeld, U.S. defense secretary, according to
Paraguayan Defense Minister Roberto González.
A communiqué read out by González and circulated by
EFE, affirms that Duarte highlighted to Rumsfeld the
total educational support his country receives from
Cuba, as well as the economic benefits of the energy
agreements signed with Venezuela.
”At the same time we agreed on the need to build a
united South America, with greater political power
in world decisions, especially in the economy,
finances, the distribution of information and
knowledge,” according to the text, circulated a day
after Rumsfeld’s official visit to Asunción.
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