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Weekly Report - 6 November 2008 (ISSN 1741-7422)
BRAZIL-CUBA: Lula throws down gauntlet to Chávez
Brazil's President Lula da Silva paid his second
visit to Havana in nine months this week, a clear indication of his
determination to bring Cuba within Brazil's geopolitical orbit, and to muscle in
on Venezuela's patch just as President Hugo Chávez has sought to erode Brazil's
influence in South America. Lula left Cuba brandishing an accord between
Brazil's state owned oil company Petrobras and Cuba's Cupet, and an acceptance
from President Raúl Castro to his invitation to attend the Latin American and
Caribbean summit on integration and development in Salvador de Bahía on 16 and
17 December. This would be Castro's first foreign visit since taking over from
his brother Fidel. He has pointedly not been to Venezuela.
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- Quotes of the week