Venezuelan Ambassador to Guyana Dario Morandy Figuera yesterday related the importance his government attached to South American neighbours Guyana and Brazil towards the establishment of the South American Security Council through which he says “the south would be more united and equal.”
His statements came at a simple service held at the Venezuelan Institute for Culture and Co-operation in celebration of the birth anniversary of Venezuelan liberator Simon Bolivar when Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Chief of Staff Commodore Gary Best was invested with the Medal Star of Corobobo for his efforts at maintaining military cordiality between the two countries.
The same medal was conferred upon Military Attache of the Republic of Brazil in Guyana, Colonel Eudes Carvalho Dos Santos.
In brief comments via his translator, Figuera told the small gathering which also included members of the diplomatic corps from Cuba and Brazil that it was important that the three nations maintained interaction among each other.
To this end he pointed to the establishment of the South American Security Council and Guyana and Brazil’s efforts in making known their support, noting that it was the only way for the countries of the south to truly build a “society”.
Commemorating the birth of Bolivar he said was nothing simple for Venezuelans. He recounted Bolivar’s efforts and his focus towards ending the fight for the freedom of South America and proclaimed that “we will never again be a colony.”
“That’s why we call Venezuela the Bolivarian Republic,” he stated.
Floral offerings were made at the foot of the bronze statue of Simon Bolivar which stands in the centre’s compound.