Casa de las Americas recalls Benedetti's friendship with Cuba
Benedetti wrote in a letter sent after his first visit to the country, 'my five weeks in Cuba have already been listed among my best seasons (…), due to the spiritual shock that represents being a witness to a social and political experience like that Cuba is lucky to live.'
The Latin American integration institution emphasized 'its organizational and work capacity managed collections, launched a sound archive and records, prefaced volumes, made anthologies, arranged conference cycles, and convened collaborators from half the world.'
In Cuba, the artist shared with outstanding intellectuals, such as Roberto Fernandez Retamar or Haydee Santamaria, consolidated the work of the respectable entity, where he was a member of the magazine's collaboration committee, prepared books for the publishing label and headed the Center for Literary Research.
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