Cuban intellectual Fernando Martínez Heredia dies

Cuban intellectual Fernando Martínez Heredia dies 

June 12, 2017
A CubaNews translation by Walter Lippmann.

Fernando Martínez Heredia. Photo taken from La Jornada.

This morning we received the news of the death, on Monday morning, of the distinguished professor, essayist and historian, Fernando Martínez Heredia , at the age of 78 years.

Martínez Heredia was born on January 21, 1939 in Yaguajay, province of Sancti Spíritus, Cuba.

As a professor of postgraduate education, he taught courses and lectures on social issues in various institutions in the country and in nineteen other nations, where he worked as a guest professor or researcher.

A permanent researcher of the Cuban and Latin American realities, he participated in social research at the University of Havana, the Center for Western European Studies, the Center for American Studies and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities and the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

He was scientific collaborator of the Program of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Cuba; Member of the “Ernesto Che Guevara” Chair and the Current World Problems Seminar of the Economic Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

He worked in the Cuban Institute of Cultural Research Juan Marinello and there he was president of the chair of studies “Antonio Gramsci”.