The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (right) with the former Cuban personality Fidel Castro in Havana. Photograph: Ricardo Stuckert/AFP/Getty Images
The former Cuban personality Fidel Castro hosted an "emotional" assembly with the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, yesterday, reaffirming the close attribute in in between the countries, Cuban media reported.
Lula is on his last central outing to the island prior to his tenure as boss expires. He told reporters that Castro, who ruled Cuba for 49 years prior to health problems forced him to palm energy to his younger hermit Raúl, looked "exceptionally good".
Photographs showed the dual long-time friends chatting and smiling whilst sitting around a list in the backyard of a two-storey house.
A inform on Cuban radio pronounced the dual had a prolonged and accessible dialogue, deliberating topics together with the tellurian meridian shift discussion in Copenhagen in Dec and the not long ago finished Rio Group limit in Cancun.
Castro, 83, thanked Lula for his "gestures of oneness and co-operation" with Cuba, the inform said.
"The romantic assembly was an countenance of the existent loyalty in in between the dual leaders and the society that unites the dual countries," it added.
The trip, that is Lula"s third to Cuba in dual years, was dictated to vigilance the island"s significance to his successor, who will take energy after Brazil goes to the polls in October, a Brazilian shrewd person said.
Under Lula, a former kinship leader, Brazil has supposing income and corporate flesh to Cuba at a time when the Cuban economy has suffered in the tellurian recession.
The state-controlled Brazilian oil hulk Petrobras is study either to cavalcade for oil off Cuban shores, whilst the Odebrecht building a whole organisation is streamer a outrageous revamp of the pier of Mariel, west of Havana, in to the island"s main blurb port.
Brazil"s state-run National Development Bank has given $300m (£196m) to Odebrecht to set up new roads, rail lines, wharves and warehouses at Mariel, most appropriate well known as the site of a 1980 mass departure in that thousands of Cubans fled to the US in boats.
Lula"s revisit was overshadowed by the genocide of the Cuban domestic restrained Orlando Zapata Tamayo on Tuesday after an 85-day craving strike.
While furloughed the Mariel plan yesterday, Raúl voiced bewail at the genocide of Zapata, who had been in jail given 2003 and was portion a 36-year sentence, but blamed it on "relations with the United States".
He pronounced Zapata had not been murdered or tortured.
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