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Venezuela defends Cuba ties after Trump calls Maduro ‘Cuban puppet’

September 24, 2019

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza on Tuesday said his country would continue working with Cuba, after U.S. President Donald Trump called Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a “Cuban puppet” in his United Nations speech.

Arreaza called Trump a “puppet of imperialism and capitalism” and said other countries in the region that recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido were puppets of the United States.

(Reporting by Luc Cohen; Editing by Mary Milliken and Grant McCool)

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