17824: Esser: Haitian People and Government Thank Cuba for its Solidarity (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: D. E s s e r <torx@joimail.com>

Haitian People and Government Thank Cuba for its Solidarity.
Enero, 9, 2004, 10:00am

Santiago de Cuba, Jan 8 (AIN) Advisor to Haiti’s Ambassador
in Havana María Yoselín Palanqué gave a message of
gratefulness to Cuba on behalf of the Haitian people and
government.

During commemorations for the 200th anniversary of the
Haitian Revolution at Santiago de Cuba’s Physical Cultura
Faculty, the Haitian official stressed bilateral historic
and cultural relations between both countries.

During the ceremony, Misael Enamorado Dáger, member of the
political bureau of Cuba’s Communist Party in that Eastern
province, called on nearly 400 Haitian youths studying there
to defend the ideas of justice of those who carried out the
first Revolution that took place in the Americas.

Participants unveiled a bust of Toussaint Louverture, Heroe
of Haitian Independence, which was made and designed by
Cuban sculptor Alberto Lescay.

They also inaugurated an exhibition by painter Pedro Luis
Ramírez which depicts important moments of Haiti’s
revolutionary struggle from the perspective of a famous work
by writer Alejo Carpentier.

On January 1804, the first black republic of the world was
born as well as the first independent nation in Latin
America and the Caribbean.

Over 700 Haitian students are taking courses in Cuba, 400 of
them are studying in Santiago de Cuba particularly at the
medicine faculty. However bilateral ties between Haiti and
Santiago date back to two centuries ago, when many French
landowners came to that Cuban territory.

The Cuba-Haiti Cooperation Program also includes the
presence in that nation of 600 doctors and medical personnel
who assist 82% of the Haitian population.

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