The renowned researcher and professor Rafael Acosta de Arriba, Cultural Research Award 2018, was in charge of the opening lecture of the Crisol de la Nacionalidad event, the most important theoretical space of the Fiesta of the Cubanía.
His masterly dissertation on Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, highlighted the wide work of the Father of the Homeland and its historical significance before cultural personalities and researchers from social science institutions.
Acosta de Arriba, also stressed the legacy of the Initiator as the only statesman of the 1868 struggle, at which time his exchange with presidents of the South American republics and the rulers of the United States and Spain, among other personalities of the world, to whom he exposed the powerful reasons for the battle for the Cuba independence.
The current publication of Los silencios quebrados de San Lorenzo, in charge of the Casa Editora Abril, maintains the prologue by Eusebio Leal Spengler, who rightly described Carlos Manuel de Céspedes as the keystone of the Cuba history, he added.
His work as a historian has focused on key figures of the Cuban Revolution including Father of the Natio, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, protagonist of several of his articles.
Dedicated to the bicentennial of the birth of the Father of the Homeland, the 25th Fiesta de la Cubanía will run until the October 20th , in Bayamo, and includes activities in the town of Jiguaní and the coastal city of Manzanillo. (By: Milena Céspedes Milán/ Photo: Luís Carlos Palacio/Translated by Radio Bayamo)
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