Workers from the Prosecutor's Office and the Court awarded

Havana, December 15.- In the presence of Esteban Lazo Hernández, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and president of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State, the ceremony of decorations was held in this capital on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Attorney General's Office and the Popular Court System.

In the ceremony, around thirty workers, both institutions receive different recognitions, among which the Jesús Menéndez and Hazaña Laboral medals, the Lázaro Peña Order in the First, Second and Third Degree and the Honorary Title of Labor Heroes stand out.

The honorees received the distinctions from the hands of Lazo Hernández and also members of the Political Bureau Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister of the Republic, Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee, and Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, Secretary General of the Committee. Of the Cuban Workers Central.

The recognitions were also granted by members of that party structure, Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, Major General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, Minister of the Interior, and Teresa Amarelle Boué, Secretary General of the Federation of Cuban Women.

For Luis Lorenzo Palenzuela Paez, wearing the star on his chest that accredits him as a Labor Hero of the Republic is the summary of five decades dedicated completely to the work of the Prosecutor's Office to give the maximum for the control of legality and in defense of the project. socialist.

I accept this award on behalf of many workers because I was not worthy of them individually, but rather of the group of colleagues who have marked the performance of that body over time, he added.

On December 23, 1973, under the protection of Law no. 1250, Law of Organization of the Judicial System, the Attorney General's Office of the Republic was established on a chosen date, in honor of the birth of the Camagüey patriot Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz, prominent jurists and Major General of the Cuban Liberation Army. (Text and photo: ACN)