DACCRE Scholarships
by María Josefina Arce
Cuba continues to maintain ties with its compatriots abroad, in a process that the authorities describe as continuous, irreversible and permanent.
The DACCRE scholarships, granted to the descendants of Cubans living abroad, are part of this process, as a sign of the strengthening of relations between the two parties.
More than 135 young people from 53 nations have benefited from this plan, which, in addition to professional training, allows them to get closer to the land of their parents, their customs and traditions.
The Eleventh Meeting of DACCRE Scholarship Holders was recently held in Havana, an opportunity to share the experiences of these young people on Cuban soil.
This year marks two decades of implementation of this program, the result of the Third Conference "Nation and Emigration" held in the Cuban capital in 2004.
These meetings are an expression of the commitment and will of the Greater Antilles to develop coherent and respectful relations with Cubans living in other countries, based on the Dialogue of '78, promoted by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.
Fidel believed that the community is a force and the community is taken into account.
The celebration of these transcendental meetings, the first in 1994, has allowed a strengthening of this mutual rapprochement, also favored by the implementation of several migratory measures by the Cuban authorities.
Even in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic, this process continued, which, in the face of the necessary isolation measures, found its maximum expression through social networks, with various actions to strengthen ties and support for their country birth.
Faced with the cruel tightening of the US blockade, during the world health emergency, numerous donations arrived on Cuban soil from our citizens living in other parts of the world.
Cuba is working to strengthen ties with its citizens abroad, the vast majority of whom condemn the U.S. blockade and the inclusion of the Caribbean nation in the arbitrary U.S. list of countries allegedly sponsoring terrorism.
