TEHRAN - On Sunday, the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Tehran celebrated the 200th Anniversary of the “Letter from Jamaica”, written by Liberator Simon Bolivar back in 1815.

The ceremony kicked off with the Cuban ambassador, Bolivian head of mission and representatives of Mexico and Argentina making a speech on the occasion.

Cuban ambassador to Tehran Vladimir Andres Gonzalez Quesada recounted the story behind the liberator’s letter and said the occasion has brought Cuba and Venezuela together once again, a proof of unity.

The Cuban diplomat went on to say that in 2004, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, the leaders of Cuba and Venezuela respectively, established ALBA (formally known as the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America group), which is an intergovernmental organization based on the idea of social, political and economic integration of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

“The principle and ideology of Simon Bolivar were also found in Fidel Castro,” the Cuban ambassador said.

Ambassador Gonzalez Quesada pointed to the speech of the then-president, Fidel Castro, on April 30, 2005 in Havana in which Castro said, “We are convinced that we can all come out of poverty and underdevelopment together and not alone and that is feasible only through unity. This is a reality that Bolivar’s Dream is shaping in South American soil.”

The Cuban diplomat then added that although major accomplishment has been made in Latin America “there still remains is a long way to reach the Bolivar’s Dream.”

In his speech in the ceremony, Bolivian head of mission recited Simon Bolivar, the Liberator’s famous quote “More than anyone, I desire to see America fashioned into the greatest nation in the world, greatest not so much by virtue of her area and wealth as by her freedom and glory.”

The “Letter from Jamaica”, a response to a correspondence sent by a British-born Jamaican merchant Henry Cullen, encouraged the patriotic American natives not to abandon the struggle for independence against the Spanish crown and put forward the reasons that caused the fall of the Second Republic of Venezuela within the context of the independence of the nation.

The letter itself, due to its high anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, unionist and integrationist content, has the same validity today as it did on September 6, 1815.