Fidel Castro´s humanism highlighted in Angola

HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 24 (ACN) Angolans and Cubans in Luanda highlighted the humanism of Revolution leader Fidel Castro on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his first visit to Angola from March 23 to 27, 1977, published today Granma newspaper.

I want to thank you for your support, which allows us to be in this room now, said General Antonio dos Santos Franza, who came to Cuba in 1962 to train as an agronomist and met Fidel in those conversations with students at the Havana's University.

Fidel Castro changed History for the better, marked it during his life, he added.

With his internationalist spirit he filled the Cubans with dignity and made them known in the world, he added during an event at the Anibal de Melo Press Center in the presence of the Cuban ambassador in Angola, Gisela García Rivera, and of the diplomatic corps accredited in the country.

It was a very emotional and historical visit, recalled the Angola's ambassador in Argentina, Erminio Escorcio, who in 1977 was the protocol director of the Foreign Ministry.

Member of the security commission during the stay of the Head of State, General Roberto Leal Ramos Monteiro recalled the complication of being part of the Cuban leader´s detail. Fidel Castro wanted to feel everything, to see everything, he assured.

The arrival of the head of the Cuban Revolution caused tremendous joy because he was a humanist par excellence, said Lucia Ingles, secretary general of the Angolan Women's Organization, who at that time was the secretary of communications for the presidency.

Thanks to Cubans we became what we are today. I have been in Cuba about ten times and I am Cuban too.