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  • Cuba's Castro Says Venezuelan Chavez Speaks for Him

    03/18/2002 2:11:57 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 19 replies · 577+ views
    yahoo.com ^ | Mar 17, 2002 5:31 PM ET | Pascal Fletcher
    CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Cuban president Fidel Castro said (on) Sunday his friend and ally, president Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, could speak for him and his revolutionary ideas at a world development conference in Mexico this week. "Even if I don't go, we, I, feel represented in your words," Castro told Chavez in a telephone call during a marathon live broadcast of the Venezuelan leader's weekly "Hello President" television and radio program. The 75-year-old Cuban leader, who swapped banter, baseball talk and mutual praise with his younger counterpart during the on-air chat, said he had not yet made up his...