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CARACAS, Wednesday November 19, 2008 | Update
Vietnam President pays homage to Venezuelan founding father
Politics
Vietnamese President Nguyen Mihn Triet laid on Wednesday
a wreath on the sarcophagus containing the remains of Liberator
Simón Bolívar.
The event took place early in the morning during a ceremony
attended, among others, by Venezuelan Vice-President Ramón
Carrizalez and Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro,
state-run news agency ABN reported.
Nguyen Mihn Triet is paying a two-day official visit to Venezuela
intended to trigger bilateral trade relations and including
a meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chávez.
Back in 2006, both of them entered into cooperation agreements
on culture and power during Chávez's visit to Vietnam.
A proposal has been made for the creation by both countries
of a development fund similar to the financial facility established
with China.
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05:09 PM. Economy. If any country has cashed in on the Bolivarian revolution, that is Brazil, particularly the private companies of the southern neighbor. Over the past five years, it has been awarded contracts for works to be carried out in Venezuela for over USD 14 billion. This puts it as the first recipient of government-to-government contracts, that is, without bidding, since Hugo Chávez took office.
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