VENEZUELA’s newly sworn-in interim President Nicolas Maduro has hailed Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar as “an extraordinary man of the Caribbean.”
The Venezuelan President made this assertion during his swearing-in ceremony at the National Assembly in the Caracas on Friday evening.

Maduro noted that President Ramotar comes from a country with which others wanted to establish a feeling of hatred between the peoples of the two countries.
President Maduro said: “Something really significant, we want to highlight, is the presence in this room of an extraordinary man of the Caribbean, and from a country with which others wanted us to establish a feeling of hatred between our people and their people.”
President Maduro added that the late President and Commander-in-Chief, Hugo Chavez completely changed the foreign policy of Venezuela, “which now resolves our outstanding issues based on brotherhood and not hatred and war, which was the wish of the oligarchies and the imperialists. Here is the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, Donald Ramotar.  Thank you very much for coming.”
President Ramotar and his Ecuadorian counterpart Raphael Correa attended the swearing-in ceremony of President Maduro who will serve until elections scheduled for mid-April are held.
President Chavez died last Tuesday following a long battle with cancer.