Seminar on “50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution”
The “50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution” Seminar was held in Havana on July 14-16.
It was co-sponsored by the José Martí National Studies Program, the University of Havana, the Institute of International Relations, the Che Guevara Studies Center, Ocean Press and Ocean Sur, and the journal “Contexto Latinoamericano”.
The opening of the seminar that took place in the Main Hall of the University of Havana on the morning of the July 14, included the welcome by Dr. Rubén Zardoya, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Havana; as well as the remarks of Dr. Armando Hart, president of the José Martí National Studies Program and of David Deutschmann, president of Ocean Press and Ocean Sur, and director of the political journal “Contexto Latinoamericano”, both part of the organizing committee of the seminar. The opening session featured a presentation on “The Development of the Cuban Political System” given by Dr. Ricardo Alarcón, president of the National Assembly for Popular Power.
The 3-day seminar included the participation of representatives from many different Cuban institutions (academics, research centers, political and social organizations) and most of the prominent writers and political theoreticians in Cuba. The seminar took place at Havana’s Hotel Nacional.
The program of the seminar included:
José Martí: the theoretical foundations of the Cuban Revolution
Dr. Armando Hart
Historical perspective of the Cuban Revolution
Dr. Sergio Guerra
The presence of Che within the Cuban Revolution: an historical perspective
Dr. María del Carmen Ariet
Cuba’s international relations
Dr. Isabel Allende
Fifty years of relations with the United States
Ramón Sánchez-Parodi
The influence of the Cuban Revolution in Latin America
Roberto Regalado
Religion in Cuba
Dr. Aurelio Alonso
Cuban migration
Dr. Jesús Arboleya
Revolutionary culture
Dr. Eliades Acosta
The evolution of the Cuban economic model
Dr. Omar Everleny
The social policies of the Cuban revolution
Dr. Juan Valdés Paz
Women and 50 years of revolution in Cuba
Isabel Moya
The war of the peoples and the evolution of Cuba’s system of defense
Bridgadier General Reynaldo Gómez Cuevas
Half a century of confrontation with the counterrevolution
Division General (r) Fabián Escalante
The closing words of the seminar were made by Fernando Rojas, Vice-Minister of Culture in Cuba.
The papers presented at the seminar on the “50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution” will be published in Spanish as a series of pamphlets and a book anthology by Ocean Sur and a selection in English as a book anthology by Ocean Press.
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