CARACAS – The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, arrived this Friday in Caracas, after 8:00 a.m. (local time), to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of Nicolás Maduro Moros, this January 10, as re-elected President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, for the 2025-2031 cycle.
The Head of State -who touched Venezuelan soil at the Simón Bolívar International Airport- was received by Gabriela Jiménez, sectoral vice-president for Science, Technology, Education and Health, as well as by Dagoberto Rodríguez Barrera, ambassador of the largest of the Antilles in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Recently, in mid-December 2024, Díaz-Canel had visited the Caribbean country to take part in the 24th Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP).
At that important meeting, the Cuban dignitary had declared that “Cuba will not bend, just as ALBA-TCP will not”; and had called for that integrating organization to “continue moving forward, in constant search and realization of projects for the economic development and dignity of Our America”.
This will be the third time that Nicolás Maduro Moros – born in Caracas on November 23, 1962 – is sworn in as President of his country. He has been carrying on his shoulders for more than ten years the task of leading a great nation of Our America, as the protagonist of a performance whose essence is to preserve the legacy of Commander Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías.
The Cuban delegation that has arrived to the South American country and headed by the President of the Island, is also integrated by the member of the Political Bureau and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla; the head of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Emilio Lozada García; as well as the General Director of Latin America and the Caribbean of the Foreign Ministry, Eugenio Martínez Enríquez; and the Cuban Ambassador to this sister nation, Dagoberto Rodríguez Barrera.