On his X account, Díaz-Canel sent a “fraternal embrace to the comrades of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), who started, at the Martin Luther King Center, the celebration for 40 years of solidarity actions and shared struggle between our peoples.”

The Brazilian movement, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary in January 2024, has a historic relationship with Cuba, striving for social justice and searching for a way of production that guarantees a full and equal life for all people.

The MST is one of the emblematic peasant movements in Latin America, which enabled the establishment of hundreds of rural agrarian reform settlements in all Brazilian regions, based on collectivity and cooperativism.

The MST works to draw attention to violence in the countryside and the displacement of indigenous, peasant, and traditional populations, among other political and social demands.

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