Cuba recognizes its science
Integral to Cuban development and sovereignty
January 15 is Cuban Science Day. Yesterday, 15 January 2024, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the National Assembly of People’s Power, sent congratulations to Cuban scientists via their X (Twitter) accounts. Díaz-Canel notes that the results of Cuban science have been the determining factor in the development of the country and in the defeat of the blockade. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parilla also released an extensive commentary of congratulations. And Roberto Morales Ojeda, Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, described Cuban science as the pillar of Cuban revolutionary work, enabling the nation to confront difficult moments and to preserve the sovereignty of the nation.
In recognition of Cuban science, I repost an edited version of my commentary of January 18, 2022, entitled “Cuba - A nation of science and thought: State-directed scientific research, applied to socioecon…