Kingston, Jamaica, 22 December, 2021. Today, December 22, Cuban Education dresses up, as it is celebrating the most important cultural event in the 63 years of the Revolution “The Literacy Campaign”. A few months after the triumph, many people, and among them adolescents, marched to all the mountains and rural areas of the country to educate more than a million people who could not read or write at that time, fulfilling one of the most important approaches important aspects of Fidel in his plea "History will absolve me." Several of them offered their lives for this beautiful cause, among them Conrado Benítez and Manuel Ascunce, who became symbols that multiplied the forces to win that battle in the shortest possible time, and it was so on December 22, 1961, in In a gigantic act in Havana, Fidel declares Cuba free of illiteracy, the first territory to achieve it in Latin America. From then on, every December 22, all Cubans, and especially educators, have a special reason to celebrate.
In the case of Jamaica, since 1997 and uninterruptedly until today, hundreds of Cuban specialists have fulfilled their mission, contributing decisively to the education of children, adolescents and young people; in the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language and of other sciences, among them: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Natural Sciences. Currently, the Brigade is made up of 72 teachers and professors, who provide their contribution in 63 educational institutions of all levels, and dispersed in all regions of the country.
From the sister country of the Caribbean, we congratulate all the educators, and especially the literacy teachers, and those who have also brought the light of teaching to other sister countries of the world: the internationalists.