Panama: President aims for closer ties with Venezuela in recent visit.

Caracas - Prensa Latina
03/03/2009

Panama President Martin Torrijos arrives in Venezuela Tuesday to carry out a working agenda with his peer Hugo Chavez, who will welcome him at the Miraflores Palace.

The Venezuelan statesman attended in Panama at that time the celebration of the 180th anniversary of the Amphictyonic Congress, a first step for Latin American integration, sponsored by Simon Bolivar in that country on June 22, 1826.

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