Border security and control, an unavoidable mission of the General Customs of the Republic (AGR in Spanish), has new guarantors: 173 young people from the fifth graduation of the Higher Technical Training Program in Customs, classroom mode, who received their degrees just when the 62nd anniversary of the Socialist Customs is being celebrated.
At the commemoration ceremony, presided over by the member of the Political Bureau and Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, the decisive role of customs officers in safeguarding the country was highlighted, especially in the current context, marked by an unprecedented tightening of the blockade and an escalation of the U.S. government's aggressiveness against Cuba.
With the Revolution, the principles of sovereignty, loyalty and firmness triumphed... and it is those same principles that you defend from your jobs, in the face of every perfected attempt to circumvent our borders, Marrero Cruz assured, while recognizing one of the strengths of the Customs Department: its young people, many of them women.
He asked the graduates to "prepare themselves very well and continue to improve" in order to face new challenges, to be able to apply science and innovation to improve methods, to consolidate confrontation and to solve problems.
"For more than six decades, the work of the Socialist Customs has not only guaranteed security and control at the border, but has also contributed to the welfare of the nation, by facilitating commercial exchange and protecting our resources", reiterated the head of the AGR, Nelson Cordovés Reyes, in a letter addressed to the workers and students, which was read on the day.
Melinda Regla Valera Aguilera spoke on behalf of the graduates, and as an integral part of the graduates, and emphasized the high ethical commitment that should distinguish them, today and always, as representatives of an institution that is strengthened by the incorporation of new professionals.
The recognition, from the hands of the Prime Minister and the Head of Customs, to students with an outstanding teaching career and to others who excelled as leaders of the Young Communist Youth Union and the University Student Federation, added notes of healthy pride to the commemoration, in which applause also rang out to the accompaniment of the trova and the children's group Los Cascabelitos.
