Fidel, Chávez and other leaders and personalities from Latin America and the Caribbean preside over the first graduation ceremony of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM)

Fidel, Chávez and other leaders and personalities from Latin America and the Caribbean preside over the first graduation ceremony of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM)

"(...) here we state that there will never be peace with the empire without full sovreignty and independence of our homeland; there will never be peace with the empire without the full validity of the Revolution and socialism; we shall never submit to any hegemony, and we shall never accept the unipolar dominion of the Yankee empire; we do not care about those who will give up the flag on the way, who will give up the march; we shall never care about those who will adhere to the gold and the power of the empire.  We belong to your lineage, Antonio Maceo, to your blood-line, to you

Visiting the writer Augusto Roa Bastos, 1989 Cervantes Literary Prize ", in his apartment in Asunción (Paraguay) and inviting him to visit the Island.  The famous Paraguayan writer-novelist accompanied him on his return trip to Cuba to present the Cuban edition of his books Hijo de hombre (Son of Man) and  Yo, el Supremo (I, the Supreme) at the Casa de las Américas.

Commander in Chief Fidel Castro inaugurates the First Social Workers’ Course at the school in Cojimar.