Typical foods, popular dance music and small expo-sales of handicrafts, clothes and perfumes characterized the proposals of the event, whose name evokes the ties of brotherhood between the two peoples.
In the 1980s, the Grapefruit Festival was the most awaited event in the Isle of Youth, located in southwestern Cuba; and “we loved to go,” Caimanero Alfredo Boavida told Prensa Latina.
For the inhabitants in that small Cuban island, “we, foreign scholarship holders, were not strangers, we enjoyed and ate like any people from the Isle of Youth and, in those days of the festival, my favorite dish was pork fricassee,” the current president of the Association of Pre-Cadets and Cadets (ASSOPRECA) said.
The grapefruit is “a symbol in our lives”: education in the countryside, the times of study in Cuba, thinking about the future of Angola, “the fresh fruit at hand when we were thirsty or hungry” and an experience marked by the internationalist legacy of Fidel Castro, the ASSOPRECA representative stated.
The members of the Caimaneros association, Angolan teenagers and young people as activists, directors of other solidarity organizations with Cuba, diplomats and collaborators of the Caribbean nation attended the grapefruit festival this weekend.
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