In this manner the Cuban writer eulogized the compilation by Cuban historian Elier Ramírez Cañedo, deputy director of the Fidel Castro Ruz Memorial Center, and Luis Morlote, an official from the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).

In Prieto’s words at the memorial center, the book published by Ocean Sur Publishing House is to be commended for compiling speeches Fidel Castro gave to art instructors, as he encouraged them delve into humanistic education and history.

Arts instructors schools, in the late Cuban leader’s view, was a place to educated a new type of professional who would simultaneously learn about arts, creation and pedagogy.

Prieto warned about the current danger deriving from social networks and misinformation, and insisted on the importance of reading, reasoning and explaining current geopolitical phenomena to the new generations. “This is an essential book to approach Fidel’s vision of comprehensive general culture, memory and basic knowledge of the human being, as one way not to be manipulated. It gives us essential lessons to confront fascism,” he stressed.

He went on to recall the priority Fidel Castro gave to culture in the defense of identity, socialism and the homeland.

During the launch, attendees acknowledge he impact of Fidel Castro’s phrase “Culture is the first thing to be preserved,” considering to bring social, political and economic changes to real life a profound cultural revolution is vital.

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