Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel took part on Monday in the opening of the First International Colloquium “Fidel: Legacy and Future,” dedicated to the historical leader of the Revolution.
The director of the Fidel Castro Studies Center, René Barrios, stated that this meeting is taking place in a particularly complex international context, where it is increasingly necessary to return to the thinking of the Commander-in-Chief.
Also participating in the opening were the President of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Esteban Lazo; the Prime Minister of the Republic, Manuel Marrero; the Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales; as well as other leaders representing social and mass organizations.
The event, which will run until Thursday, August 13th — the centennial of the revolutionary leader’s birth — is conceived as a grand, pluralistic and diverse popular celebration with an inclusive and emancipatory purpose. At the same time, it constitutes an academic, political and scientific space for reflection and action.
The gathering, which brings together more than 1,500 delegates, including over one thousand from around 60 countries, will address Fidel Castro’s role as a revolutionary, statesman, and military strategist, his political and social ideology, Marxist practice and the construction of socialism in Cuba.
Likewise, his impact on foreign policy, the struggle for peace and anti-imperialism, as well as his humanist and internationalist legacy in education, science, culture, health, and sports will be analyzed.
The First International Colloquium “Fidel: Legacy and Future” will also highlight his cultural impact on the arts and popular memory, the relevance of his thinking to the challenges of the 21st century, and unity as a strategy for regional integration and cooperation, with an emphasis on social justice, sovereignty, and self-determination of peoples.
IMAGE CREDIT: Photos: Endrys Correa Vaillant (FotosPL)
[ SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA ]
