Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel today congratulated athletes, instructors, and workers of the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education, and Recreation (Inder) on the occasion of the institution's 65th anniversary.

Invoking a well-known remark by Fidel Castro, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution — "Sports are health, and instructors will be saviors of lives" — the president emphasized that this vision has remained the cornerstone of Inder throughout its six and a half decades of existence.

In a message published on the social media platform X, Díaz-Canel highlighted that the Cuban sports model rests on three fundamental pillars: mass participation, high performance, and recreation. "Congratulations to the athletes, instructors, and workers for taking sports as far as has been possible," the head of state wrote on the platform.