April 9, 2025
Cuban doctors and educators working in Honduras
This is a “meeting of solidarity, love, friendship and emancipation,” said President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez to a group of Cuban health and education workers along with Hondurans from the solidarity movement with Cuba, with whom he met shortly after arriving in Honduras.
It was necessary to come to Honduras, he said, because of Cuba’s commitment to CELAC and to our sister President Xiomara Castro De Zelaya.
We bring a message of peace, said the president, who recalled the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace.
photos: Alejandro Azcuy
The Head of State highlighted the work of the Cuban collaborators in Honduras, that he described as a work of love and solidarity that has stood the test of time, and which will soon have important milestones such as the declaration of Honduras being a country free of illiteracy.
Honduras will always be able to count on Cuba, the President assured those present at the meeting where it was revealed that 128 Cuban health workers are working in more than twenty Honduran territories. All specialties are represented.
The education brigade is made up of 135 colleagues from all Cuban provinces; the majority are primary school teachers.
86% are women; 113 have master’s or doctorate degrees.
More than 395,000 Hondurans have learned to read and write thanks to their work.
“We, the grateful people of this country, are with Cuba for all time,” said friends who are part of the solidarity movement, who welcomed them to the land of Morazán and Berta Cáceres. It was also a time to wheree tribute was payed to Commander in Chief Fidel.
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – Havana