Venezuelan President describes Castro meeting as 'historic'

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro described his meeting in this capital with the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, as historic, and stressed that his ideas are undefeated, Cubadebate website reported on Sunday.

During the meeting, which took place 60 years after the attack on the Moncada Garrison, Maduro gave Fidel Castro a painting made by late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his days of medical treatment in Havana. The Venezuelan leader also presented the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution with Ignacio Ramonet's book "Mi Primera Vida" (My First Life), which contains a long interview with Chavez, the most comprehensive about his live and work, by the French intellectual.