Cuba pays tribute this Saturday to the historical leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016), with multiple tributes dedicated to evoking his legacy, on the seventh anniversary of his physical disappearance.
Photographic exhibitions, conversations, book presentations and public events held in these weeks demonstrate the living presence in the town of the architect and main guide of the transformation process that has been driving the country for more than six decades.
Cultural institutions also joined in the tributes to the historical leader with the panel "Hart's Vision of Fidel", convened by the Martí Program Office of Cuba.
The dialogue was starred by prestigious intellectuals such as the director of the Casa de las Américas, Abel Prieto; the director of the Martiano Program Office, Eduardo Torres Cuevas, and the writers and researchers Pedro Pablo Rodríguez and Eloísa Carrera, widow of Armando Hart.
As a way to evoke Fidel, the panelists spoke about Hart's work and thoughts and his unconditional loyalty to revolutionary and Fidelist principles.
This Saturday a political-cultural evening will take place on the steps of the University of Havana, where the young lawyer consolidated his Martian and revolutionary training.
As founder of the first socialist State in the Western Hemisphere, the historic Cuban leader designed, guided and executed a foreign policy of clear independence and global extension, and an internationalist teaching profession.
Furthermore, he promoted on a global scale the battle of the Third World against the current world economic order, in particular foreign debt, the waste of resources through military spending and neoliberal globalization.
He advocated a policy of solidarity among the oppressed and respect for sovereignty within the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), an organization of which Cuba was a founder in 1961.
Its role in the consolidation of the revolutionary process, the economic and social transformations of the country, the development of education, health, sports, culture and science, the confrontation with the aggressions of the United States and the call for unity In the region they made him a universal symbol of resistance. (Source: Prensa Latina)