Thursday 06 November
2008, San José, Costa
Rica
Panamanian President:
Obama's Win To Boost
Ties With Latin America
Nicaragua
President Greets Obama Victory
Evo, Lula, Call
Obama to Lift Blockade on Cuba
Venezuela To Mend Fences
With U.S. Following
Obama's Victory
Clash In Paraguay
Injures At Least 14
Police, 50 Protestors
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Evo, Lula, Call Obama to
Lift Blockade on Cuba
La Paz - Bolivia's
President Evo Morales
and Brazil's Luiz Inacio
Lula da Silva exhorted
on Wednesday US
President-elect Barack
Obama to eliminate the
blockade against Cuba.
"I hope Obama could lift
the Washington-imposed
economic, trade and
financial blockade, as
well as withdraw US
troops from some
countries," Morales
stated.
Lula and Peruvian
opposition leader
Ollanta Humala
highlighted that the
policy of siege on Cuba
"has no human
explanation."
A release from the
Venezuelan Foreign
Affairs Ministry termed
historic the November 4
election results, and
congratulated Obama for
his victory.
Mexico's Head of State
Felipe Calderon,
Uruguay's Tabare
Vazquez, and Chile's
Michelle Bachelet, as
well as Argentina's
Foreign Minister Jorge
Taiana, and Brazil's
Celso Amorim also
highlighted the Illinois
senator's victory.
Several European leaders
welcomed Obama's triumph
with pleasure and
advocated for
strengthening relations
between the United
States and Europe.
The President of the
Spanish Government, Jose
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero,
Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Berlusconi, his
Ireland peer Brian
Cowen, German Federal
Chancellor Angela Merkel
and French Foreign
Minister Bernard
Kouchner, congratulated
the first US
Afro-American president.
The governments of
Vietnam, India and
China, as well as
Chinese leader Hu Jintao,
Arab League General
Secretary Amr Moussa,
Egypt's President Hosni
Mubarak, Sultan of Oman
Qaboos Bin Said Al-Said,
and Qatar's Emir Sheikh
Hamed Ben Khalifa al-Thani
also sent
congratulations to the
next US president.
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