According to Sanchez Ceren, during the friendly meeting with Raul Castro, he emphasized on the importance of the relationship of two brother peoples as Cuba and El Salvador, and reviewed the effort carried out by both governments to strengthen ties and cooperation.

In that sense, the results for El Salvador are very significant, because it also allows us that all development and talent the Cuban Revolution has achieved, we could share it in areas of many importance for the social development, the statesman said after expressing that very important agreements were achieved.

About this issue, he stated that the main progresses and achievements in terms of cooperation were implemented in areas of education, health, environment, and also in economic relations and trade exchange.

As a result of this visit, our public health system would have access to direct purchases of Cuban medicines, and another very important agreement, in agriculture, was achieved, destined to ensure food security of the Salvadorian people, noted the visitor after stressing some of the main accords.

(Prensa Latina)

The Group of Research and Development of the Culture Provincial Direction in Matanzas, summoned the tenth edition of the theoretical event named after the eminent anthropologist, lawyer, archaeologist, journalist and ethnologist.

Ortiz (1881-1969) was a scholar of the Afrocuban historic and cultural roots and is considered the third discoverer of Cuba after Cristobal Colon and Alexander Humboldt.

As is usual, the Theoretical Forum Fernando Ortiz has the objective of studying from different theme and methodological points of view, the study of Cubanness, specifically the Matanzas identity, indicated the venues organizers.

The topics in the agenda are the aboriginal presence in the 16th and 17th Centuries, Influence of the different ethnical components of national and local culture and Our cultural roots and popular and traditional culture.

The list of topics is completed by Community Work: Human Improvement Projects through Cultural Traditions.

The agenda of the forum will include an inaugural conference. The most humble also created the national by Fernando Martinez Heredia, president of the Cultural Research Institute Juan Marinello.

The Forum will be part of the 11th Fiesta of the Origins, celebration conceived to expose the variety of ethnical components, based on the Matanzas culture, as well as the influence of other nations, said the source.

(Prensa Latina)