HAVANA, Cuba. – Outstanding Cuban intellectual Fernando Martinez Heredia, National Award of Social Sciences, died at dawn this Monday, at 78.

The holder of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba, Doctor in Law and professor of the University of Havana was born in Yaguajay, province of Sancti Spiritus in 1939.

Martinez Heredia was one of the founders of Caiman Barbudo, scientific collaborator of the Program of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Cuba, member of the Ernesto Che Guevara Chair, and of the Problems of the Current World Seminar of the Economic Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Director of the Juan Marinello Institute of Cultural Research, he was also noted for making and participating in a large number of social research, most of them on contemporary realities.