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The President of the councils of State and Ministers, Army General Raul Castro, returned to Cuba on March 3 after a three-day visit to Uruguay, where he participated in the inauguration of President Tabaré Vázquez, who for the second time took on this responsibility as representative of Frente Amplio.

Upon his arrival, Raul was received at Havana’s José Martí International Airport by Miguel Diaz-Canel, First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers; and Abelardo Colomé, Minister of the Interior, the two of them members of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party.

During his stay in the Uruguay, the Cuban President met with Tabare Vazquez; former president José Mujica and his wife, Senator Lucía Topolanski; Eduardo Lorier, general secretary of the Communist Party of Uruguay, and other members of that political organization. He received the Key to the City of Montevideo from the capital’s city council, with which Commander in Chief Fidel Castro was also honored in 1995.

This is the first time Raúl visits the homeland of José Gervasio Artigas, which made it possible to verify the excellent relations uniting the two countries and contributed to strengthen their fraternal bonds even more, since like the Cuban head of state pointed out: “we love Uruguay very deeply”.