In the early hours of this Sunday, Professor Eduardo Torres Cuevas passed away in Havana. He was a steadfast revolutionary and tireless worker, a militant of the Communist Party of Cuba, director of the Martí Program Office, and president of the José Martí Cultural Society.

A distinguished intellectual, he presided over the Academy of History of Cuba, directed the Interdisciplinary Center for the Development of Social Sciences, the Don Fernando Ortiz House of Higher Studies at the University of Havana, and was President of the French Alliance of Cuba.

Torres Cuevas was born in Havana on September 4, 1942. From 1959, at just 16 years old, he joined the revolutionary transformation process as a militiaman and literacy teacher. He graduated as a Professor of Philosophy from the University of Havana in 1969, the year he began his teaching career at that esteemed institution. He graduated with a degree in History in 1973.

He held a Doctorate in Historical Sciences, was a Full Professor at the University of Havana, and a Senior Researcher, in addition to teaching at other universities in the country and numerous study centers abroad.

He served as a Deputy to the National Assembly for the municipality of Santiago de Cuba from 2008 until his passing and was a Member of the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba between 2019 and 2023.

As part of his multifaceted intellectual activity, Torres Cuevas was a full member of the Cuban Academy of the Language, director of the contemporary image publishing house at the Don Fernando Ortiz House of Higher Studies, and director of the journal Debates Americanos. He also founded and presided over the Voltaire Chair for academic collaboration between the University of Havana and the Embassy of France in Cuba, and was President of the Vicente Antonio de Castro Interdisciplinary Chair for Historical Studies of Cuban Freemasonry.

From 2007 to 2019, he was director of the José Martí National Library of Cuba and of the institution's journal. In his long and fruitful intellectual career, Professor Torres Cuevas maintained a special attachment to the University of Havana, standing out as a meticulous researcher of the process of the formation of the Cuban nation and the evolution of political thought and ideas in our country.

The merits of his extraordinary scientific research work led him to be a member of the National Commission for Scientific Degrees of the Republic of Cuba, the Scientific Council of the Institute of History of Cuba, and the National Commission for the History Degree.

He was also part of the Ideological Commission of the Central Committee of the Party, the Working Group for the creation of the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, and the Drafting Commission of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, approved in 2019.

He was an Honorary Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the National Union of Historians of Cuba (UNHIC).

Eduardo Torres Cuevas was the author, co-author, or coordinator of more than 60 books and dozens of articles. In 2007, he was one of the writers to whom the XVI Havana International Book Fair was dedicated.

The courses that Torres Cuevas designed and taught are well remembered and remain highly relevant: "Cuba: the dream of the possible. History of the formation and liberation of the Cuban people and nation" and "Those who thought about Cuba," for the Universidad Para Todos (University for All) space on Cuban Television.

He received numerous decorations and distinctions in Cuba and abroad, including the First Class Félix Varela Order, the Replica of the Machete of Máximo Gómez, the First and Second Class Frank País Order, and the Carlos J. Finlay Order.

His colleague and friend, the great historian Eusebio Leal, referring to Torres Cuevas, said he was, "by his exceptional talent and capacity, one of the most brilliant Cuban intellectuals; possessor of the balance, moral grandeur, and deep Cuban spirit that are indispensable for understanding and analyzing social processes; of a sobriety and concept of ethics so elevated that always, despite our fraternal friendship, when I find myself before him, I experience that rare and pleasant sensation of the disciple before the master."

The work of Eduardo Torres Cuevas is a pillar of the scientific and pedagogical thought produced by the Revolution. Therefore, present and future generations will find in it an inexhaustible wealth of knowledge and patriotism.

By family decision, his remains will be cremated. In the coming hours, information will be provided regarding the public tribute to be paid to the eminent professor and revolutionary Cuban intellectual.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Cuba and the University of Havana extend their deepest condolences to the family and friends of the unforgettable intellectual.