Havana, Feb 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuba's Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso announced on Wednesday the actions to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 'Words to Intellectuals' speech, delivered by the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.

 

At the National Library, where the speech was delivered to writers and artists on June 30, 1960, the head of the Cuban National Library explained that the celebration will focus its program on youngsters and will deepen the living, necessary and indispensable dialogue, a priority issue in the country's cultural policy.

The slogan of the campaign - 'You Have the Floor' - alludes to the final phrase of the revolutionary leader's speech six decades ago, about the responsibility of intellectuals with future generations, and expresses the will of a participatory, honest and transparent exchange.

The minister explained that the dialogue advances renewed and vital, and urged the confrontation of ideas, committed evaluation and analysis of diverse issues and phenomena, without renouncing to ethics, complexity and depth, unavoidable characteristics of the true intellectual.

According to Alonso, the youngsters recognize the validity and vitality of the founding discourse, whose ideas and spirit reveal the humanist essence and the deep democratizing and Marti's character of the cultural policy, thanks to which the nation is made up of prepared men and women.

The minister assured that 'Words to the Intellectuals,' the concluding speech of three meetings between Fidel Castro and the vanguard of the sector, transcends the artistic and literary area and constitutes an inclusive, dialectic platform under which dialogue has been gestated and consensus has been built.