Cuban Artists & Writers Celebrate 50th

HAVANA TIMES, August 21 — The Cuban Artists and Writers Association (UNEAC) celebrated their 50th anniversary as an organization on Saturday.  President Raul Castro and Minister of Culture Abel Prieto were on hand for the event held at the Garciá Lorca Gran Teatro.

UNEAC president Miguel Barnet said the organization has been “a tool of the intellectual vanguard” and since its creation has served to promote “the most noble ideas of the socialist revolution,” reported cubadebate.cu.