Havana hosts international symposium on Cuban Revolution

HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 29 (ACN) Social scientists from nine countries are participating at the 4th International Symposium Cuban Revolution: genesis and historical development, opened today at the Jose Marti Memorial, in Havana, where it will be held until Thursday.

At the opening, PhD Yoel Cordovi Nunez, president of the Institute of History of Cuba, said that the presence of researchers from Brazil, United States, Russia, Mexico, Spain, Chile, Ethiopia, Germany and Sweden are part of the solidarity support received by the Caribbean nation, in view of the recent energy problems and the disastrous impact of Hurricane Oscar in the eastern region.

He stressed that the participation of foreign delegates and guests in this event, whose first edition was in 2015, also responds to the interest in sharing with the Cuban academy its results on a crucial issue at all times: revolutions.

Cordovi Nuñez affirmed that in current scenarios of extreme reaction of the international right wing, of imperialist and neo-fascist arrogance, of Monroist doctrinal updating towards our America, the lessons of Fidel Castro and the exponents of the best of the revolutionary ethics of the planet become much more necessary.

The symposium is sponsored by the Institute of History and the Association of Historians of Cuba (UHC), with the support of other institutions and organizations, and during its three days of sessions at the Jose Marti Memorial there will be debates of papers in commissions, presentation of books, panels and keynote lectures.

The opening of the meeting was attended by Liudmila Alamo Dueñas, deputy head of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the Party; Jorge Luis Aneiro, president of the UHC; Rene Gonzalez Barrios, director of the Fidel Castro Center, and Rosa Maria Perez, president of the Association of Communicators, among others.