Cuba opens a new school year

Education is the response to paradigms imposed by consumer societies

      More than 1,622,000 students returned to the classroom on September 4 in 18,800 educational institutions across the country.  In an opening ceremony attended by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, Cuban Minister of Education Naima Trujillo Barreto declared that the schools open their doors to children, adolescents, and youth with similar dreams and aspirations under conditions of equal guarantee for their realization.  She asserted that “education must always be an alternative to the paradigms imposed by the consumer societies, which conspire against human progress and life on the planet.”