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Andean Group - July 2005 (ISSN 1741-4466)
Castro visits as Chávez threatens to break ties with US
In his first trip abroad since breaking his arm and his knee in October, Cuba's President Fidel Castro flew into the Venezuelan coastal city of Puerto La Cruz at the end of June to attend an energy summit for Caribbean leaders. His visit coincided with the repetition of President Hugo Chávez 's oft-vaunted threat to severe relations with the US,
following the US State Department's decision to write to the delegates at the summon, warning them of the Venezuelan president's destabilising effect on the region. Whether Chávez will act on his announcement, and what such a break in ties would entail, remains unclear.
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