Cuba pays tribute to eminent historian Eduardo Torres Cuevas

HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 2 (ACN) The people of Cuba paid tribute to the eminent historian, essayist, and professor Eduardo Torres Cuevas, who recently passed away.

Floral tributes were laid on behalf of Army General Raul Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CCPCC) and President of the Republic, and the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) at Cuba's final farewell to Torres Cuevas, held at the Don Fernando Ortiz House of Advanced Studies in Havana.

Members of the CCPCC Political Bureau, Esteban Lazo Hernandez, President of the National Assembly of the People's Republic (ANPP), Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister of the Republic, Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization, and Salvador Valdes Mesa, Vice President of the Republic, among other authorities, cultural figures, and members of the university community, performed the honor guard in memory of the Cuban thinker.

Abel Prieto Jimenez, President of Casa de las Americas, emphasized that those present fulfilled the dignified duty of farewelling a great historian and patriot.

He defined him as one of the great intellectuals who played a leading role in the country's Revolution and contributed significantly to the consolidation of patriotic sentiment.

Prieto Jimenez urged the continuation of the values ​​that identified his work from all spheres of society to keep his legacy alive.

The distinguished Cuban poet, playwright, essayist, and translator, Nancy Morejon, told the Cuban News Agency that Torres Cuevas is a symbol, an iconic figure of historical studies and national traditions.

In his understanding, with his studies he built a bridge between the educated and the popular, always convinced that history was written by the people, that specialists in the discipline study what happened, but it is on that foundation that the past makes sense and the future is built.

For this reason, he was very consistent with that; he was an exceptional academic who never stopped listening to the people, she concluded.

Professor Eduardo Torres Cuevas, a true revolutionary and tireless worker, member of the Cuban Communist Party, director of the Jose Marti Program Office, and president of the Jose Marti Cultural Society, passed away early on Sunday morning in Havana.

A distinguished intellectual, he presided over the Cuban Academy of History, directed the Interdisciplinary Center for the Development of Social Sciences, the Don Fernando Ortiz House of Advanced Studies at the University of Havana, was president of the Alliance Française of Cuba, and delved deeply into the island's constitutional history since the Republics in Arms.