HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 7 (ACN) To pay tribute to Cuban journalist, critic and intellectual Pedro de la Hoz Gonzalez, who passed away on Wednesday, wreaths were laid at the Villena Hall of the Cuban Writers and Artists Association (Uneac by its Spanish acronym) by Army General Raul Castro Ruz, leader of the Revolution, and Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic.
Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the PCC, and Ines Maria Chapman Waugh, deputy prime minister of the country, attended the honors for this outstanding teacher.
Miguel Barnet Lanza, writer, ethnologist and honorary president of Uneac, in his farewell words recalled his links with De la Hoz journalist in the 70’s, recently arrived from Cienfuegos, who “brought a sparkle of radiant light in his eyes and a profession that won his time because he was the architect in Cuba of a critical and committed journalism”.
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