Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, received today at the Palace of the Revolution Gail Walker, executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organisation (IFCO), to which the Pastors for Peace Caravan belongs.

According to the President’s account on X, the US social activist, daughter of the Reverend Lucius Walker, said that on this visit to the island she is accompanying 12 young people from the United States who are beginning their studies at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).

The Presidency adds on the social network that, to date, 234 North American students from low-income backgrounds have studied at this prestigious university since 2000, when the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, offered the first scholarships, an initiative supported by Pastors for Peace.

In this respect, Gail Walker commented that the graduates from her country practice a profoundly humanistic medicine.

Also present at the meeting were Johana Tablada, deputy director for the United States at the Cuban Foreign Ministry, and Fernando González Llort, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).