A ceremony to inaugurate a President Ho Chi Minh bust took place in Guadalajara city, in Mexico’s Jalisco state, on September 14.
A ceremony to inaugurate the President Ho Chi Minh bust took place
in Guadalajara city in Mexico’s Jalisco state on September 14 (Photo: VNA)
Addressing the ceremony, Mayor Enrique Ibarra Pedroza, of
Guadalajara city said the bust is a pride of the city and its people, while
member of the city’s council, Jeanette Velazquez Sedano, affirmed that the
legacy of President Ho Chi Minh will be everlasting.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Mexico, Nguyen Hoai Duong, thanked the
local people for their sentiment towards President Ho Chi Minh and the
Vietnamese people.
He recalled the admiration of former Mexican President Lazaro
Cardenas for President Ho Chi Minh and Indian leader Mahatma Gandi, saying that
they spent their whole lives striving for national liberation and freedom.
The 60cm-high bronze statue, created by Mexican sculptor Saul
Hernandez, is the fourth one of President Ho Chi Minh to be installed in
Mexico.
Earlier, a statue of President Ho Chi Minh was inaugurated at the
Vietnamese Embassy’s headquarters in Mexico in 2015.
Meanwhile, a statue capturing President Ho Chi Minh working in the
Presidential Palace was placed in a park in Mexico City in 2010 and another was
unveiled on Miguel Aleman Avenue in Acapulco city in 2009.
Source: NDO
The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee has held a meeting of the organising committee for celebrations of the 80th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (December 22, 1944 - 2024) and the 35th anniversary of the All People’s National Defence Festival (December 22, 1989 - 2024). Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Toan presided over the event.
Exemplary collectives, individuals and households in the patriotic emulation movements have contributed greatly to building ethical and moral standards in the community.
A delegation of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) led by its Governor Nguyen Thi Hong paid a working visit to Hoa Binh province on February 22.
Together with the whole country, people of all ethnic groups in Hoa Binh province celebrated the Lunar New Year of the Dragon happily and safely. The warm weather on the first days of the new year made people more joyful, in harmony with the bustling pace of spring life.
Over the last 94 years under the Party’s leadership, the Party organisation, administration, and people of Khoan Du commune (Lac Thuy district), where the first unit of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hoa Binh province was established, have upheld their glorious revolutionary tradition and stayed united to strongly develop their hometown.