(13 Aug 2001)
Puerto Ordaz
1. Venezuelan President Fidel Chavez getting out of car and boarding plane
2. Security
3. Plane taxiing on runway
4. Cuban President Fidel Castro's convoy arriving at airport
5. Castro getting out of car and shaking hands with airport officials
6. Castro boarding plane
7. Plane taxiing on runway
San Felix
8. Various crowds cheering Castro
9. Various shots of Castro and Chavez at emergency police centre
10. Castro talking with officials
11. Crowd outside
12. Two woman wearing t-shirt, saying 'Cuba'
13. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Vox Pop, resident of
" I think he looks very well and everything he (Castro) said yesterday was true, it's all true. We are in a situation of chaos here. We need housing. Where I live they want to clear us out and build apartments. We don't have the money to pay for that- we want housing."
14. Mid shot crowd
15. People holding up placards and banners
16. Wide shot crowd
STORYLINE:
Cuban President Fidel Castro continued his visit to Venezuela on Sunday, with a birthday excursion over the famous Angel Falls.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez- in a separate plane- joined Castro on the flight over Canaima National Forest, thought to have been the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Lost World.'
The two leaders took off from Puerto Ordaz, Bolivar state, in the eastern Orinoco region of Venezuela,
Later on in the day Castro visited an emergency police centre in San Felix, also in the state of Bolivar.
Crowds gathered to cheer the veteran leader, and to wish him a happy birthday.
Castro turns 75 on Monday.
While polls show most Venezuelans oppose Castro's ideology, thousands have excitedly shadowed him this weekend.
The poor and dispossessed, especially, share Castro's conviction that free market policies have done little to improve their lot.
Chavez himself is one of Castro's few steadfast allies in a world increasingly committed to free market economies.
The United States- Venezuela's biggest consumer of oil - keeps a wary eye on the relationship.
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