Díaz-Canel and other Authorities Congratulate Mothers in Cuba

President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other Cuban authorities on Sunday highlighted the qualities of Cuban mothers and congratulated them on this day dedicated to honoring them, a tradition that has been going on for more than a century.

The president highlighted the ability of Cuban mothers to sustain and transform the most difficult reality, with sensitivity, courage and beauty, he wrote on the digital platform X.

For his part, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero called them heroines and also stated in X that “their love has no limits”, a statement that was accompanied by an image of the Mother of the Nation, Mariana Grajales.

Likewise, the president of the National Assembly of People’s Power (parliament), Esteban Lazo, quoted the Cuban National Hero, José Martí, who said about mothers: “they are love, exquisite sensitivity and the support of our lives”.

In Cuba today there is a prevailing atmosphere of family celebration and joy before a celebration that, after more than a century, has become indispensable here every second Sunday of May.

According to research on the subject, it was in 1920 in the town of Puerto Padre in the eastern province of Las Tunas, and not in Havana’s San Antonio de las Vegas, where the first massive celebration of Cuban mothers took place.

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