Venezuelan VP Nicolás Maduro returns from Cuba

Maduro confirmed that he was in Havana with National Assembly Speaker Diosdado Cabello and other members of the executive cabinet

Vice-President Nicolás Maduro was accompanied by National Assembly Speaker Diosdado Cabello and Agriculture Minister Juan Carlos Loyo (Photo: TV screen capture)

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Thursday January 03, 2013 06:54 PM

Venezuelan Vice-President and Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro on Thursday returned to Venezuela from Cuba and immediately visited the headquarters of state-owned coffee plant Fama de América to conduct an inspection along with other members of the executive cabinet.

In his first statement after arriving from Havana, Maduro said he was in Cuba with "Diosdado Cabello, the Speaker of the National Assembly and also first vice-president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), who along with Rafael Ramírez, the Minister of Energy and Mines; Adán Chávez, the governor of Barinas state; Cilia Flores, the Solicitor General of the Republic; and Jorge Arreaza, the Minister of Science and Technology, spent the last hours accompanying President Hugo Chávez."

Maduro arrived in Venezuela from Cuba, where he visited President Chávez, who is recovering after a surgery for cancer performed December 11.

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