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The President of the Republic of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, received at the Palace of the Revolution, yesterday, the President of the Brazilian Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann, who is making an official visit to the largest the Antilles, accompanied by the federal representative, Lindbergh Farias.

Among Díaz-Canel’s first words towards the Brazilian delegation was a hug for his counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Since Lula became President of the South American giant, “a whole group of actions in support of Cuba have intensified,” said the Head of State.

Every week, he added, one or two delegations of businessmen, or representatives of ministries, are received in the Caribbean country: “There is very fluid communication and several projects that are advancing, which I believe will be of mutual benefit, which will “They help us a lot in the midst of a very complex situation that we are now going through due to the intensified blockade that is strongly felt and, above all, due to the inclusion of Cuba in the list of countries that supposedly support terrorism.”

To Hoffmann, leader of the Brazilian left, and one of the most important of the regional left, the Cuban President expressed the “will to continue strengthening relations with the PT, inter-party relations.”

For her part, the President of the PT expressed gratitude for the invitation that the PCC extended to them. Likewise, she thanked President Lula for “the support they always gave us”, always so important in the international arena.