Africa-Press – Angola. The first President of Angola, António Agostinho Neto, is on a list of personalities to be honored in Cuba this month, announced the vice-president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), Víctor Gaute López.
The institution, stresses that Agostinho Neto’s thought, convictions and political action decisively marked the history of Angola, before and after Independence on November 11, 1975.
For her part, Tamara Velázquez López, director of Communication and Documentary Historical Heritage at ICAP, said that solidarity organizations will join the activities that will take place within the Cuban archipelago to honor the first President of Angola.
Officials from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples also stated that the initiative aims to emphasize the Cuban revolution’s commitment to respecting the sovereignty of countries, as well as promoting solidarity in the just causes of the peoples. Among the honorees are Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Salvador Allende (Chile), the young Italian tourist Fabio Di Celmo, victim of a terrorist attack in Havana in September 1997, and the American Reverend Lucius Walker.
The list also included the martyrs of the Cuban airline’s plane, which crashed in Barbados, as a result of a terrorist attack in 1976, and the 154th anniversary of the Grito de Lares, in support of the decolonization of Puerto Rico.
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