The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC-PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel assured Monday that today for Cuba is a day of victory and happiness, on the occasion of the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year throughout the country.

Havana, November 28 (RHC)-- The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CC-PCC) and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel assured Monday that today for Cuba is a day of victory and happiness, on the occasion of the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year throughout the country.

In his Twitter account, the dignitary said that he participated in the national ceremony for the start of the new school term, in the western province of Pinar del Río, the most affected by the passage of Hurricane Ian, last September 27.

Díaz-Canel highlighted the creative resistance of the people of Pinar del Río, who despite the damage caused by the meteor, category three on the Saffir-Simpson scale of a maximum of five, reopened the doors of their educational centers.

The ceremony took place at the 'Pepito Tey' elementary school, located at kilometer 14 of the road to La Coloma, one of the 477 educational institutions damaged in Vueltabajo.

The head of state was accompanied by Army Corps General Ramón Espinosa Martín, member of the Political Bureau of the CC-PCC and First Deputy Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces; Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party and head of the Department of Attention to the Social Sector.

Also in attendance were Jorge Luis Perdomo Di-Lella, Cuban Deputy Prime Minister; Aylín Álvarez García, First Secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communist League; and Ena Elsa Velázquez Cobiella, Minister of Education, among other leaders.