In the daily edition of Granma on October 8 there was an article entitled “The FAO recognizes the Cuban government’s promotion of food security”.
According to Granma the representative of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, Dr. Theodor Friedrich, stated that the island is one of the FAO’s best “students.”
Several days later, on October 15, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of FAO and World Food Day, an interview with Dr. Friedrich appeared in the same paper.