Bolivia's Morales to fly to Cuba aboard Castro's private jet


LA PAZ, Bolivia (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro is sending his
private plane to pick up president-elect Evo Morales for his first trip
abroad since his electoral victory, a spokesman for the Bolivian leader
said Thursday.

Morales will fly from the Bolivian city of Cochabamba to Havana Friday
for a meeting with the communist leader, whom he intends to invite to
his January 22 inauguration, spokesman Alex Contreras said.

Morales' choice of Cuba as his first stop on an extensive trip abroad
underlines the political loyalties of the leftist leader, who pledged
to join Castro's "anti-imperialist struggle" in a message to the Cuban
people the day after his election.

The former coca farmer organizer flies back to Bolivia early Saturday,
also in Castro's jet, to spend the new year in Oruro in the southern
Andes, his birth place.

On January 3 he flies to Madrid where he is to meet the following day
with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, according to
the most complete agenda of the trip released thus far.

He travels January 5 to Paris for meetings with French government
officials and representatives of leftist European groups based in the
French capital, Contreras said.

January 6, he goes to Brussels where he hopes to meet with European
Parliament authorities.

Morales is scheduled to visit South Africa, where he will meet with
former president Nelson Mandela, from January 6-9, and China January
10-12. No further details of that portion of the trip were available.

Morales is scheduled to meet Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva in Brasilia on January 13, the spokesman said.

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