Book presentation on the second anniversary of 11J in Cuba

Gabriel C. Salvia, General Director of CADAL, presented the book «75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Views from Cuba» at the colloquium «For the right to truth and memory» organized by Cubalex at Florida International University in the framework of the second anniversary of the 11J protests in Cuba.

The authors of the book are Manuel Cuesta Morúa, Julio Antonio Fernández Estrada and Reinaldo Escobar. The book includes the speech of Cuban Guy Pérez de Cisneros at the presentation of the draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948). The volume includes the Declaration and each of its articles illustrated by Cuban artists Julio Llópiz-Casal, María Esther Lemus Cordero and Renier Quer Figueredo, with a prologue by Hilda Landrove.

(Photo Cubalex) Photo courtesy of CUBALEX: Yunior Pino and Orelvys Cabrera.

The book was presented at the closing of the main panel of the event organized by CUBALEX, moderated by Isabel Echemendía and in which Latitza Diversent, Giselle Morfi and Alain Espinosa spoke on the second anniversary of the 11J protests: For the right to truth and memory.

(Photo Cubalex) Photo courtesy of CUBALEX: Yunior Pino and Orelvys Cabrera.

Professor Jorge Duany, Director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.

Video gentileza de CUBALEX: Yunior Pino y Orelvys Cabrera.

Gabriel C. Salvia, compiler of the book "75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Views from Cuba", during the CUBALEX event at FIU.