www.chinaview.cn 2008-03-08 23:28:47 -
HAVANA, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
arrived in Cuba Saturday for a visit after his country's border crisis
with Colombia and Ecuador was defused at a regional summit Friday.
It was Chavez's first visit to Havana since Cuba's former leader
Fidel Castrol handed over power to his brother Raul Castro last
month.
The Venezuelan president was greeted by Raul Castro at the Jose
Marti air****t in Havana, Cuba's official newspaper Granma re****ted.
At the Rio Group summit in the Dominican Republic's capital Santo
Domingo Friday, Chavez shook hands with his Ecuadorian and Colombian
counterparts, defusing a border crisis caused by Colombia's cross-
border raid on rebels last week.
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe apologized for the raid on
Ecuadorian soil at the Rio Group summit and dissolved the tension.
