Regime honors Cuban troops in Angola

On a five-hour visit to Luanda, Hugo Chavez established diplomatic ties with Angola and praised the Cuban troops who fought to install the Marxist-Leninist regime in the 1970s and '80s.

"The South American head of State remembered the first Angolan President Agostihno Neto and then mentioned the island s martyrs, who shed their blood for the definitive freedom of the African nation, and Cuban top leader Fidel Castro," the Cuban propaganda agency Prensa Latina reports.