Maduro congratulates Castro brothers on new ties with U.S.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, a frequent critic of the United States, congratulated the Castro brothers Friday on Cuba’s rapprochement with Washington – but warned that the embargo on the island would remain for a long time. This month’s historic announcement that the United States and Cuba were restoring diplomatic relations after half a century of hostility undercuts the stridently anti-American stance Maduro has adopted as his country slides into a deepening economic crisis. Venezuela had long found in its close ally Cuba a comrade in its anti-American diatribe, but the dynamic has now changed. Venezuela has been Cuba’s main political and economic ally since the late President Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999.

We celebrate with infinite joy the completion of the final release of the Cuban Five, thus closing one of the many chapters of the United States’ interventionist and criminal policy.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro

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