Words to intellectuals focused debates at Ibero-American Fiesta

University professors Lino Verdecia and Ariel Zaldivar expressed on Tuesday from the Casa de Iberoamérica in Holguín some considerations regarding the 60 years of Words to Intellectuals, a document that remain valid in the current Cuban context.

The online exchange, organized by the Angulo Ancho audiovisual project, is part of the activities planned for the 27th edition of the Ibero-American Culture Festival taking place in this eastern city,  dedicated this year to the peoples and the art of resisting.

Professor Lino Verdecia said that beyond a speech, Words to Intellectuals was the result of a dialogic meeting that Fidel held with Cuban artists and intellectuals on June 16, 23 and 30 at the National Library José Martí and pointed out the sense of unity, among the elements of greatest significance in the text.

He explained that there is a sense of latent unity in the document that calls attention to defending what has been achieved from a position that allows the admission of those who do not think alike, since only the “incorrigibly counterrevolutionaries” will be left aside; hence, as the Apostle said: "It is time to unite."

For his part, Ariel Zaldivar said that Words to Intellectuals reflects the dialectics of the Revolution as a subjective, dramatic and challenging process; and added that its rereading allowed him to realize certain constants related to a deep creative humanism, implicit reasoning and historical optimism in the face of challenges of the triumphant Cuban Revolution.

They agreed on the importance of insisting on the study of Words to the intellectuals by the new generations so that they understand the events, the fears of the artists of that time and identify the seed that derived from that fear continued to germinate with bad fruits, and whose objective is to achieve the division and distortion of the history of Cuba.

The Diálogos Diversos campaign, sponsored by the Casa de Iberoamérica, is part of the communication program led in Cuba by the Ministry of Culture under the name of “Tienes la Palabra” (You Have the Word), aimed at evaluating the significance of that event in contemporaneity.