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PHOTO FLASHBACK: Michael Manley’s official visit to Cuba, July 1975

Published:Friday | July 9, 2021 | 6:55 AMA Digital Integration & Marketing production
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Jamaica’s Prime Minister Michael Manley (left) and Cuba’s Prime Minister Dr Fidel Castro share a toast immediately after the signing of the economic and cultural agreement between the two countries at Protocol House in Havana on Saturday, July 12, 1975.
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Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Sr. Raul Roa (left) and Jamaica’s Minister of State for External l Affairs. Senator, the Hon Dudley Thompson signing the economic and cultural agreements between Cuba and Jamaica at Protocol House in Havana on Saturday, July 12, 1975. Witnesses to the signing were Jamaica’s Prime Minister Michael Manley (standing left). Cuba’s Prime Ministers, Dr Fidel Castro and the Permanent Secretary in Jamaica’s Ministry of External Affairs, Mr Golden Wells and a number of officials from both countries.
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Jamaica’s Minister Michael Manley paid homage to the Apostle of Cuba’s Independence Movement, Jose Marti, on Wednesday, July 9, 1975, when he laid a wreath at the foot of the memorial shrine to Marti, in the heart of the city of Havana, Cuba.
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Jamaica's Prime Minister Michael Manley (2nd from left) being invested with the order of Jose Marti by Cuba's Prime Minister, Dr. Fidel Castro, at a ceremony in the National Revolutionary Palace in Havana, on Wednesday, July 9, 1975. Cheering at right were the Jamaican Minister of State for External Affairs, Dudley Thompson, a Cuban official and Mrs Beverley Manley.
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Jamaica’s Prime Minister, the Hon Michael Manley, addressing the thousands of construction workers and others who attended the rally at the Construction Workers Training Centre at Alamar, outside of Havana, last Saturday afternoon.
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Michael Manley’s official visit to Cuba was a resounding success on the face of it. Two strong Caribbean nations looked set to join forces in a show of the power of what bilateral relationships in the region could achieve. Manley had also long called for an end to sanctions by the United States on Jamaica’s Caribbean nation. That call would put the Prime Minister in the crosshairs of the world power, but for the moment, it is all smiles.

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