Fernandez prays for Chavez, hails relations with Venezuela

Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez on Tuesday noon hailed Dominican Republic’s relations with Venezuela, and praised president Hugo Chavez’s solidarity and cooperation with his country and other Latin American nations, via the Petrocaribe oil pact.

Fernandez said the Venezuelan leader’s solidarity and collaboration with Latin America links him to the history and social progress of the hemisphere’s peoples.

The chief executive spoke after a mass for Chávez’s health officiated in the National Palace chapel, with the presence of Venezuela ambassador Alfredo Murga, Vatican nuncio Jozef Wesolowski and all cabinet ministers.