Raphael John-Lall

In a state­ment is­sued by its For­eign Min­istry yes­ter­day, the Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment cel­e­brat­ed the vic­to­ry of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and con­grat­u­lat­ed Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Venezuela’s For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Yván Gil, who post­ed the state­ment on his In­sta­gram page, re­called that dur­ing her pre­vi­ous term from 2010 to 2015, Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment had con­sol­i­dat­ed a strate­gic re­la­tion­ship based on mu­tu­al re­spect and co-op­er­a­tion in key ar­eas such as se­cu­ri­ty, the econ­o­my, and re­gion­al in­te­gra­tion.