Cuban president expresses joy at medical discharge of renowned national repentista

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 24 (ACN) Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, expressed today his joy after the news of the medical discharge of the renowned Cuban repentista Tomasita Quiala, winner of the Ibero-American Prize of the Decima (2022).

I am very happy to hear that you are recovered and back home, dear Tomasita. And it is even happier to hear it in your own voice and in your decimas, always full of love for Cuba, with the Creole sympathy that distinguishes you. Take care, the Cuban Culture needs you, said the president on X.

With his message, the head of state shared the tenths declaimed by the singer after leaving the medical institution where she was admitted after a probable heart attack.

On March 16, Radio Mayabeque reported the hospitalization of the well-known Queen of Cuban repentismo in the ICU of the Leopoldito Martinez Hospital in San Jose de las Lajas.

The winner of the National Prize for Community Culture (2004), who grew out of the amateur artists' movement, is a writer of stories, songs and poetry, and has also toured Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Argentina, where she has won the public's favor.