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• Caribbean
• Central America
• Cienfuegos
• International
• South America
• Health and Medicine
• 06 / 15 / 2007

The students will soon begin classes for their formation as doctors, and will be a great support to their country since the department of Santa Cruz is the largest in the country.

The student body includes about a hundred indigenous youths and the school has 15 classrooms, computer laboratories, comfortable dormitories, a theater and emergency health facilities.

ELAM is named in honor of Reinaldo Naranjo Leyva, an airport worker who died trying to control, with his body, the explosion of a grenade placed by terrorists attempting to hijack a plane in flight.

This is the third school of its kind in Cuba, for a total enrollment of 364 students from seven countries that include Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras, Saint Lucia and Bolivia.

Source: Prensa Latina