• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 11 / 12 / 2010

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Mauricio Funes, President of El Salvador, visited on Wednesday the Cuban pavilion at his country’s International Trade Fair and expressed his satisfaction for the participation, for the first time, of the Caribbean island in the event.

Funes took an interest in the Cuban products on display, and declared that he was in favor of having them get to all Salvadorans, pointed out Cuban ambassador Pedro Pablo Prada in statements reproduced by the Prensa Latina news agency.

Prada explained the head of state the characteristics of the Cuban enterprises participating in the Fair, devoted to health, vaccines, and the production of rum, cigars, cosmetics and other lines, of which the local press has made a wide coverage.

El Salvador broke off relations with Cuba in 1961, two years after the revolutionary triumph on the island, and reestablished them on June 1st, 2009, the same day in which Funes became the head of state of the Central American country as candidate of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), which became a political party.

In October, Funes paid the first visit of a Salvadoran president to Cuba in 50 years.
 
Source: ACN