President Díaz-Canel inaugurates the Centennial of the First Communist Party of Cuba exhibition

The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel, inaugurated this Saturday at the José Martí Memorial in Havana the Centennial of the First Communist Party of Cuba exhibition, which includes 25 photographs and posters from the Institute of History's collection that demonstrate the organization's significance.

In their introductory remarks, Rigoberto Santiesteban Reina, president of the Institute of Cuban History, and later the institution's vice president, Dr. Elvis Rodríguez Rodríguez, gave a keynote address. They explained the role played by Julio Antonio Mella and Carlos Baliño in those complex founding moments of anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist struggles.

They highlighted the audacity of those who believed in a more just and equitable future, their ideological clarity, and organizational capacity. Furthermore, the speakers called on the new generations to commit to responding to the legacy and current challenges in new cultural battles and on digital social networks.

The centennial is valued as an act of revolutionary reaffirmation, unity, and defense of sovereignty, to which those who pioneered the journey aspired.