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Venezuelan gov't congratulates Cuba for 54 years of revolution

Venezuelan authorities sent a communiqué to Cuba congratulating the people of the island for 54 years of revolution. January 1 marks the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista by the Cuban leftist revolutionary movement

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Tuesday January 01, 2013 04:44 PM

The Venezuelan Government on Tuesday sent a communiqué congratulating Cuban authorities and people on the occasion of the commemoration of the 54th anniversary of the consolidation of the Cuban revolution.

The statement stresses, "the Cuban revolution can count on the Bolivarian Revolution" to "reciprocate all the love and solidarity that has been lavished on our people, in their struggle to be increasingly free and sovereign."

On January 1, 1959, the Cuban leftist revolutionary movement ousted the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

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