[:es]Cuba Officially Welcomes Chilean President[:]

Bachelet, who carries out her before last international tour, next to ending her mandate on March 11, will lay a flower wreath before the Monument to National Cuban Hero Jose Marti, in the Plaza of the Revolution.

She will also take part in a business forum and talk with students and workers of the teaching school Salvador Allende. The eve, hours after her arrival to the Cuban capital, the head of State attended the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac) where she attended the signing of a cooperation agreement in the audiovisual field.

The agreement between the National Council of Culture and Arts of Chile and the Cuban Institute of Arts and Cinematographic Industry (Icaic) was signed by the president of this entity, Roberto Smith and the ambassador of Chile in Cuba, Ricardo Herrera.

Moments before the signature, also in the Uneac quarters, Bachelet dialogued with Cuban artists and intellectuals.

Both peoples are united by historic links. In 1971, during the presidency of Salvador Allende, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, toured Chile, becoming the first official visit of a Cuban head of government to visit the South American nation.

Then, Allende expressed that Cuba was linked to ‘the history of Latin America, Fidel Castro represents an authentical revolution and we want to intensify the traditional friendly bonds that have always existed between our countries’.

The most recent collaboration was after the quakes of February, 2010, in Rancagua and of April, 2017 in Valparaiso, by dispatching a brigada of the International Medical Contingent Henry Reeve, specialized in disaster and severe epidemics situations.

Michelle Bachelet assumed as first magistrate of Chile from 2006-2010 and was elected a second time for the period 20124-2018.

The dignatary -first president pro-tempore of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur)- will be succeeded next March 11 by Sebastian Piñera,m repitent in La Moneda after winning in a second round the elections of last December.