The head of the sector paid tribute to all educators of the Caribbean nation during the main event for Teachers’ Day, held at the José Martí Anti-Imperialist Tribune and presided over by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, and other high-ranking government and Communist Party officials.

Also present were members of the pedagogical detachment, teachers from the brigade that completed its mission in Honduras, representatives of all training models, retirees, reinstated teachers, certified teachers, and emerging teachers. Trujillo emphasized that these days—marked by Teachers’ Day, the anniversary of the Revolution’s triumph, and the beginning of a new year—call for both remembrance and critical evaluation of the educational system’s progress.

The minister recalled the historic proclamation of September 26, 1960, when Fidel Castro announced before the UN that Cuba would be the first country in the Americas free of illiteracy.

“That promise was a display of revolutionary audacity that materialized in a bold campaign, in which the people taught the people, and young people assumed the greatest responsibility,” she asserted.

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