| President Maduro hails President Ramotar “an extraordinary man of the Caribbean” |  |  |  |
| Sunday, 10 March 2013 22:24 |
VENEZUELA’s newly sworn-in interim President Nicolas Maduro has hailed Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar as “an extraordinary man of the Caribbean.”
 PRESIDENT DONALD RAMOTAR  PRESIDENT NICOLAS MADURO President Maduro said: “Something really significant, we want to highlight, is the presence in this room of an extraordinary man of the Caribbean, and from a country with which others wanted us to establish a feeling of hatred between our people and their people.” President Maduro added that the late President and Commander-in-Chief, Hugo Chavez completely changed the foreign policy of Venezuela, “which now resolves our outstanding issues based on brotherhood and not hatred and war, which was the wish of the oligarchies and the imperialists. Here is the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana,  HUGO CAHVEZ President Ramotar and his Ecuadorian counterpart Raphael Correa attended the swearing-in ceremony of President Maduro who will serve until elections scheduled for mid-April are held. President Chavez died last Tuesday following a long battle with cancer. |
Excerpts from the Guyana Chronicle