60 years of the Cuban Revolution at CLACSO

To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, the Latin American Council of Social Sciences organized the talk-debate "Cuba today: current situation and perspectives on the 60th Anniversary of the Revolution" on Tuesday, April 16.

Organized by the CLACSO Working Group “Poverty and social policies” and the National University of Quilmes of Argentina, the presentation was given by Juan Valdés Paz , representative of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and the National Association of Historians of Cuba.

The Rector of the National University of Quilmes, Alejandro Villar, served as moderator, accompanied by Gerónimo de Sierra, from the University of the Republic of Uruguay, and Carlos Vilas, from the National University of Lanús and the journal Perspectivas de Políticas Públicas de la Argentina.

In an interview with CLACSOTV, Juan Valdés Paz referred to the break with the crisis of the 90s, the Special Period, where “the most orthodox sectors had to yield to the heterodoxy of events. And there, a more open, more exploratory recomposition took place.” He also highlighted the contribution of intellectuals because “the fourth generation of the revolutionary period entered the scene, followed by a fifth and a sixth, with their own problems, challenges, and concerns,” which “has enriched perspectives on the revolution: some more critical, others less so, some more constructive, others less so, as always happens in a space of debate. But it seems that intellectuals and academia are now playing a much more important role. And even the political leadership of Raúl Castro before beginning his withdrawal, and that of the current president, have called for cooperation and collaboration from intellectuals and academics to define the course, to unravel the solutions to the extremely complex problems we face.”