Buenos Aires, Argentine.- The invincible Cuban Revolution, sustained for 60 years, a guiding force for many peoples of the world, and its resistance to the constant blockade of the United States, is the focus of Wednesday debates at one of the CLACSO 2018 forums.

In a crowded room at the Gorini Floreal Cooperation Centre in Buenos Aires, thinkers, critics and analysts are pondering with presentations all that this Cuban gesture has represented and represents under the leadership of Fidel Castro.

Opening the day, the hero and anti-terrorist fighter Gerardo Hernandez especially thanked the 8th conference of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) for dedicating a tribute to the Revolution from the different dimensions that this process of transformations has encompassed since January 1959.

Hernandez, excited to be in Argentina for the first time, Che’s homeland, honored Fidel, just a few days before the second anniversary of his physical disappearance and his step towards immortality in the memory of our people and of the men and women who fight for a better world, he said.

The Revolution, he asserted, is a great legacy for Cuba, the region and the world, and to speak of Fidel is also to remember the intellectual author of his great work, Jose Marti.

The Cuban hero pointed out that Fidel has the merit of having put into practice essential concepts of Marti’s thought such as equality, independence and Latin America.

The anti-imperialism and above all the deep humanism that characterized his immense work, added the distinguished fighter, who also paid tribute to Che, one of the great protagonists of that triumphant process on January 1, 1959.

Che, he remarked, taught us the deep sense of discipline, constancy, self-criticism, full willingness to take on any task and sensitivity to any injustice.

In his opening speech, Hernandez, who suffered long prison sentences along with his four other comrades Ramon Labañino -present in the auditorium-, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, for protecting their homeland from terrorist acts, also referred to that resistance and dignity of Cubans against the United States.

On the other hand, he invited the speakers to analyze the role of Cuban youth as one of the most dynamic participants of the last 60 years. In this forum, he affirmed, we will also talk about democracy and human rights, issues manipulated and politicized in recent decades against countries that defend their sovereignty.

For the Cuban fighter, the forum constitutes one more demonstration of the validity and strength of the Cuban Revolution as a process in constant transformation in all spheres and also in its foreign projection, deeply anti-imperialist, solidary, Latin American and Caribbean.

Georgina Alfonso, Director of the Philosophy Institute of the University of Havana, participated in the meeting Cuba in Revolution. She presented a lecture entitled Democracy in Cuba: an approach to its participatory and representative components.

Along with them are also the Director of the Cuba’s Higher Institute of International Relations, Isabel Allende and Jose Luis Rodriguez, of the World Economic Research Center, among other members of the Caribbean nation’s broad delegation.