Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel is attending the closing day of the eleventh Congress of the Cuban Women's Federation (FMC), where the challenges of the organization are analyzed.

Coinciding with International Women’s Day, the new national secretariat of the organization, which brings together the largest number of women over 14 years of age in the Caribbean nation, will be announced at the meeting.

The delegates will approve this Friday the work projections for the next five years and the central report of the event.

In addition, the opinions of the four working commissions that met the day before will be presented, focused on the economic empowerment of women, the preventive educational work of the FMC, the functioning of the organization and the attention to the youth.

Also attending the meeting were the president of the National People’s Power Assembly (parliament), Esteban Lazo; the prime minister, Manuel Marrero, and the secretary of the Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales.

Created on August 23, 1960, at the dawn of the Revolution, the Cuban Women’s Federation has made it possible for Cuban women to have their own space where they could discuss their concerns and be part of the social, economic, and political transformations of the moment.