El Salvador Braces Cuba-LatAm Links EL SALVADOR, June 2, 2009. Monday's re-establishment of relations with Cuba by El Salvador completed the island's official links throughout the region and gave another blow to the failed US isolationist attempts. More than a formal ceremony, it turned into another example of friendship with Cuba, multiplied in several acts carried out in this capital on the occasion of the presidential inauguration. The measure of putting again those relations into force as one of the first decisions of the incoming government has been supported by the Salvadorian people. The crowd who welcomed Cuban Vicepresident Esteban Lazo at the airport was a display of affection for the Cuban Revolution. The warm welcome was also repeated in the Legislative Assembly when the delegation attended the placing of the presidential sash on Mauricio Funes. Later, in font of thousands of people at a San Salvador stadium, shouts of support for the island and the ovation after Lazo's speech were more examples of feelings for Cuba from the Salvadorian people. The Committees of Solidarity with the Caribbean nation also ratified those links impervious to media aggression and US government policy. (Cubaminrex- PL)
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