FIDEL CASTRO RUZ AND THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION

Abstract

The article that we presented is consubstantial to the topic of the investigation that is developed in the Mastery in Cultural Community Development, referred to the thought of Fidel Castro Ruz about the cultural politics of the Revolution, and their conceptions in this respect from Words to the intellectuals and in posterior moments to 1990, a stage well-known as a special period. With the victory of the Revolution on January 1st, 1959, new spaces for the artistic and literary creation are opened up for the cultural development of the country, but not all were prepared for the new times, and they began the misrepresentations and the erroneous interpretations of what it was and how the Revolution was going to act in the field of Culture. Due to the uncertainty and mistrust that caused in some members of the intellectual union, the censorship on the part of the Commission of Study and Classification of Movies of the ICAIC, of the PM documentaries, by Sabá Cabrera Infante and Orlando Jiménez-Leal, the necessity was evidenced by adopting a position in what certain sector feared as the limitation of the freedom of expression of the intellectuals and artists. For that reason, the important meeting of Fidel with a group of members of the Cuban intellectuals on June, 1961, that gave origin to "Words to the intellectuals," which established the bases of a cultural politics that arose from an ethical and historical tradition.