Cuban Ambassador, Rigoberto Zarza, is visiting Hamilton on Thursday 9 April during a brief tour of New Zealand.

By Jeffery Hawkes
Published 2/04/2009

Jeffery Hawkes

Born and raised in Hamilton, the mountain with which I identify is Pirongia (after leaping off Taranaki), the river with which I identify is Waikato(the whanau held Patea close historically), the lake with which I identify is is Kopuera, and I would have to consider my local hood to be Horahora, Rangiriri. Final papers in BSC(Tech) Resource & Environmental Planning programme. Love, life, music, and nature - where all four merge I like.

When: Thursday 9 April

Where: Trade Union Centre

Harwood Street

Hamilton

Time: 7.00 PM

Cuban Ambassador, Rigoberto Zarza, is visiting Hamilton on Thursday 9 April during a brief tour of New Zealand.

He will be talking about current events in Cuba – including ongoing relations with the United States and President Obama, Cuban social and economic development, and travel opportunities between New Zealand and Cuba. He will be happy to answer any questions from participants.

This is a rare opportunity to hear about current events in this unique and contradictory country.

Light refreshments will be served after the meeting.

Rigoberto Zarza Ross works in the Asia and Pacific Division at the Cuban Institute for Friendship among the Peoples (ICAP).

He trained as an English teacher and taught in a junior high school for two years. Then he moved to the International School of Physical Education and Sports, a co-operative project involving students from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America receiving free tuition to become teachers and sport trainers. In 2007 Rigoberto began work at ICAP as an official in charge of solidarity work with Japan, New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands. He has been director of the Southern Cross brigade (annual solidarity brigade from New Zealand and Australia) for the last two years.