Díaz-Canel met with Cuban aid workers in Honduras

 

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 8 (ACN) President Miguel Díaz-Canel met with Cuban health and education professionals based in Honduras and with members of the local Cuba solidarity movement.

In a post on X, the Cuban Presidency reported that Díaz-Canel, who traveled to Tegucigalpa this week to attend the IX Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), reasserted the island's commitment to regional integration and solidarity with the government of President Xiomara Castro.

The head of state remarked the need to participate in and bring Cuba’s message of peace to the Summit and recalled the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, signed in 2014.

At the meeting, which also paid tribute to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Díaz-Canel praised the work of the Cuban aid workers in Honduras and their contribution to the forthcoming declaration of the Central American nation as a territory free of illiteracy.

Cuba has 128 health professionals working all throughout Honduras, as well as 135 teachers who have taught more than 395,000 citizens to read and write.

“Honduras will always be able to count on Cuba”, he assured as members of the Honduran solidarity movement expressed their gratitude by saying, “We, the grateful people of this country, are with Cuba for all times”.