Cuban First VP at ceremony marking 40 anniversary of military mission in Angola

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 6 (acn) Miguel Diaz Canel, Cuba's first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, headed the event to mark the 40th anniversary of the start of the internationalist military mission in the Republic of Angola.

The Cuban Vice President was accompanied by other members of the Politburo and Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People's Power, and the Army Corps General Alvaro Lopez Miera, first deputy minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, among other political and governmental leaders.
The former Triunvirato sugar mill, National Monument and site of the largest slave revolt in the nineteenth century on the island, holds a exhibition paying tribute to the heroes and martyrs of Operation Carlota, named in honor of one of the leaders of that fact occurred on November 5, 172 years ago.