Being awarded the Ho Chi Minh Medal on a visit to Vietnam.
Fidel speaks at the beginning of the first course for Social Workers at the School of Social Workers in Cojimar, Havana.
Meeting in Havana with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Argentine former football player Diego Armando Maradona.
Fidel is awarded with the 23rd of August decoration in the main ceremony for the 35th anniversary of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC).
“I must admit that Marx was right when he sketched out the idea that only when a truly rational, just and equitable social regime exists on this earth, will humankind have left prehistory behind.”
He delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Permanent Exhibition on the Achievements of the Republic of Cuba (EXPOCUBA), the country’s largest exhibition ground, as part of the Central Ceremony for the 30th Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution.
Fidel attends the Boxing Finals in the Eleventh Pan American Games, in which Cuba was the champion with 140 gold medals.
The Commander in Chief in the Round Table TV Program.
In Pinar del Río, presenting the flag to the place that will hold the main ceremonies for the 47th anniversaries of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos M. de Céspedes Garrisons.
Receive in Havana the Title of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Technical University of Oruro.