On his X account, the parliamentary leader recalled that Félix Varela’s pro-independence thinking and his contribution to pedagogy and ethics became an important reference for generations of Cubans.

Varela, a thinker of enormous importance for the recognition of the independence of the Americas from the Spanish rule, was born in Havana on November 20, 1788.

In addition to being a patriot and reformer of philosophical studies in Cuba, Varela was a priest, teacher, writer, philosopher and politician with an major performance in the country’s intellectual, political and religious life during the first half of the 19th century.

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