The Latin American Students’ Organization, in compliance with the 6th Congress of Latin American Students, awards the Order José Rafael Varona, highest distinction bestowed by the organization upon personalities and organizations in acknowledgement for their relevant merits in the general fight of the peoples against imperialism and its traces of oppression and dominance, and for the complete freedom and national independence, March 19, 1979.

The Hungarian youth awards him during his visit to the World Democratic Youth Federation head office, June 5,1972.

The Algerian National Liberation Front bestows the Medal of Honour from the hands of Algeria’s president Ahmed Ben Bella, first time in which this prize is given, a token of the close union between the peoples of Cuba and Algeria, october 16, 1962.