Late Cuban President Fidel Castro is remembered in Vietnam
Vietnamese remembered late Cuban President Fidel Castro, on the 94th anniversary of his birth (August 13).
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| Vietnamese friends celebrated with the Cuban Embassy in Hanoi the 94th birthday of late Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam, Lianys Torres Rivera delivers her speech at the ceremony. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| Members of the Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association and Vietnamese students graduated in the island came to the Cuban Mission to pay tribute to Fidel amid COVID-19. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| A delegation of the Truong Son - Ho Chi Minh Trail Tradition Association pays tribute to Fidel. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| Cuban and Vietnamese doctors who work in Quang Binh province, placed flowers for Fidel at Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital in Dong Hoi city, another symbolic center of binational solidarity, that was built in the seventies of the last century, following Fidel´s propossal. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| In September 1973, during a visit to Quang Tri and Quang Binh provinces, President Fidel Castro decided to give Quang Binh a spacious and modern hospital in order to serve local people and injured soldiers from the war. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| The construction of the hospital began on May 19, 1974 and it was put into operation on September 9, 1981 with 462 beds. The facility was considered one of the most modern and synchronous hospitals in Vietnam at that time. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Hospital in the central province of Quang Binh – a symbol of the friendship between the two countries. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| The central province of Quang Tri in 2018 inaugurated the Fidel Park to mark 45 years since Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s visit to the liberated region in southern Vietnam in 1973. Photo: VNA |
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| The inauguration of the park demonstrates the love of people in Quang Tri in particular and Vietnam in general for Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| Fidel was the first foreign leader to visit the newly-liberated area in the south of Vietnam during the anti-US resistance war. He was also a national leader who took the initiative in international movements to support Vietnam’s struggle for national independence and reunification, along with its process of national development and defence. Source: Cuban Embassy |
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| Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Do Muoi (left) and Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Photo: VNA |
| COVID-19 battle: Cuba gifts drugs, sends doctors to assist Vietnam Cuban Ambassador to Vietnam, Lianys Torres Rivera, and Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Chi Vinh, member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Defence Minister, joined ... |
| Vietnam - Cuba close ties amid COVID-19 fight highlighted in Havana Vietnam and Cuba have again shown their close friendship by sending each other medical material to support them in their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| Gathering in HCM city to celebrate Cuba’s Moncada Barracks attack It was the first among a series of events in HCM City to celebrate the 60th founding anniversary of Vietnam - Cuba diplomatic ties (December ... |
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