Havana, May 1 (JIT) -- Around half a thousand members of the Cuban sports movement paraded this Wednesday in greeting to International Workers' Day.

Full of enthusiasm and renewed commitment, athletes and workers in the sector converged on the Anti-imperialist Tribune next to the Havana boardwalk.

There, they enjoyed part of the celebration with Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic.

«Joy is contagious. Our young athletes, coaches, federations, sports glories, doctors, scientists and managers had a great time as part of a people that follows its Revolution," Coralia Márquez Fernández, director of the Higher School of Athlete Training of High Performance Giraldo Córdova Cardín.

«It's a great party. A well-deserved celebration, for everything we do and do every day to carry out our revolutionary project, which in our case we turn into medals for the enjoyment of Cubans and glory of the nation," she said.

"The enjoyment, the concentration, the words of our leaders leave me with a taste of unity, of unbreakable people, who fight and will continue to fight for their happiness," said Dr. C. Jorge Luis Barcelán, president of the Cuban Uprising Federation. of Weights.

«We must praise the presence of our young people, for whom sacrifice does not matter. Here they were proud, dressed in the sports clothing that distinguishes us and the four letters CUBA," added the also national commissioner of this sport.

UIlises Guilarte de Nacimiento, general secretary of the Cuban Workers' Union, spoke the central words of the event, in which the cessation of the Economic, Commercial and Financial Blockade maintained by the United States government on Cuba was demanded.

In the rest of the provinces, similar concentrations were held in the main squares to welcome Cubans who celebrated the 65th anniversary of the first workers' parade held after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.