The headquarters of the multilateral entity hosted in this capital several activities dedicated to the renowned intellectual, whom some of those present at the conference evoked as a human being who never says goodbye and who forever accompanies actions of love and creation.
An exhibition with documents and photos, interventions by the director general of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, and the Cuban ambassador Yahima Esquivel, and a colloquium with intellectuals and people who shared with him at various times, were part of the tribute program to Leal. .
The founding president of the Cuba Coopération France (CubaCoop) association, Roger Grevoul, presented the exhibition in the Hall of Lost Steps, where for a week facets of the architect of the restoration of the historic center of Cuba can be seen in images and texts. Havana, declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Eusebio, the promoter of a dream come true in the capital of the island, the ambassador of Cuban culture, the social fighter, the revolutionary, the friend of France and the simple man, are edges that guarantee an approach to the figure of him in Few minutes.
It has never been easy for me to talk about a personality of such magnitude and greatness, one of the greatest Cubans of all time, affirmed with emotion the academic and deputy Eduardo Torres Cuevas, who during his contribution to the colloquium always referred to Leal in present.
According to the prestigious historian, in his friend the various components of knowing, feeling, loving and thinking are harmoniously articulated, which explains his prolific prolific writer and excellent speaker standing out.
Torres Cuevas recalled that Leal deserved the investiture of Doctor honoris causa and professor emeritus at twenty universities, gave keynote speeches in at least 74 houses of higher learning in more than 40 nations and received high decorations from some 30 countries.
“I would like to tell you that it is not going away, it remains among us in the soul of those of us who love, create and believe,” he stated at the UNESCO forum, where they also offered testimonies about the historian of Havana, the French intellectual Paul Estrade and Jean Mendelson, former French ambassador to Cuba, among others.
At the event organized by the Cuban Permanent Mission to UNESCO and CubaCoop, the general director of the multilateral entity, Audrey Azoulay, expressed emotion for paying tribute to “an exceptional man of action, a teacher who dreamed of a utopia, who made a great work to carry it out, and a great friend of UNESCO”.
For her part, Ambassador Esquivel thanked on behalf of the island the broad participation in the activities of diplomats and representatives of various sectors of French society.
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