The title of Doctor Honoris Causa in Social Sciences was conferred this Thursday to the Cuban intellectual Abel Prieto by the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas (UCLV), in Santa Clara.
The current president of Casa de las Américas received the award from Luis Antonio Barranco, rector of the house of higher studies, according to Prensa Latina.
Luis Morlote, official of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, read the text of praise for the winner, written by the honorary president of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac), Miguel Barnet.
In the speech, Barnet embroidered with excessive subtlety the greatness that is hidden under the subterfuge of the former Minister of Culture of Cuba, the perennial intellectual, the writer with a bold and sharp pen.
«Abel, above all, is a unique and singular being. His snake charmer personality seduces everyone with a sharp and jovial sense of humor, never caustic, never sardonic. Abel is a child terrible guy who knows how to get into serious trouble and come out unscathed. “That he knows how to make jokes when solemnity crushes and makes us yawn.”
Abel Prieto, for his part, thanked the UCLV for granting him such a high distinction and showed his willingness to collaborate with the institution in the field of social sciences.
He alluded to the words that Commander Ernesto Che Guevara—also an Honorary Doctor of this alma mater—expressed on October 7, 1959 about cultural colonization. In this sense, Prieto Jiménez stressed that culture and the cultural war are also a fight for the meaning of life.
The author of Travels of Miguel Luna and other texts, offered a conference on the program sowing ideas, sowing consciousness, whose central theme is the fight against cultural colonization.
For his part, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez expressed in a post on the social network
