Bilateral Relations: Chile's President set to visit Cuba

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet, has announced her intent to visit Cuba during her presidency. She would be the first Chilean President to visit Cuba since Salvador Allende in 1972.

The Santiago Times reports that Bachelet announced her intent at a meeting last December with Cuban Vice-chancellor Alejandro Gonzalez, second in command in foreign relations, in addition to the Chilean ambassadors to Cuba and the Cuban Ambassador in Chile.

According to sources at the meeting Bachelet feels indebted to Cuba for housing Chilean refugees during the Pinochet dictatorship and that her feeling of gratitude is the main motive for the visit. A date has yet to be set.

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