Caracas, October 23 (RHC) -– Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro referred on Wednesday to a meeting held with Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro during his latest visit to Cuba this week, to attend the ALBA's extraordinary summit on Ebola.

“I had the opportunity, after attending the extraordinary, very scientific and human Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas (ALBA) on Ebola, to hold a four-hour conversation with Fidel Castro,” said Maduro during a meeting of the Federal Council of Government in Caracas.

The Venezuelan leader said he saw Fidel Castro with “an impressive lucidity, a shocking energy and an outstanding wisdom.”

During the meeting, he said, they both discussed the necessity of an agrarian and food revolution in Latin America.

“Fidel noted that food security is the most serious challenge for the future of humankind (…) and the great potential of our country, Venezuela, and other regional neighbors to satisfy the current demand for healthy and quality foodstuffs.”