Havana, December  21 (RHC)-- Casa de las Americas hosted on Tuesday the second meeting of the Academic-Cultural Day dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the National Literacy Campaign, considered the most important cultural event of the Cuban Revolution.

From the emblematic Che Guevara Hall, writer, and poet Victor Fowler from Cuba) and Ph.D. in Latin American Studies from Harvard University Rainer Schultz from the United States presented their experiences on The Campaign as a Cultural Revolution and The International Dimension of the Campaign, respectively.

With the lantern lit as a symbol of the revolutionary literacy process on the island, the meeting also featured other lectures by sociologist and professor Emeritus Marta Núñez of the University of Havana, who analyzed the impact of the Campaign on Cuban women.

Experts and protagonists of the mass phenomenon that declared Cuba an Illiteracy Free Territory, described the political context of the Campaign, with emphasis on the intervention of political scientist and director of Temas magazine, Rafael Hernández.

Convened by the Institute of History of Cuba and the Literacy Museum, the Academic and Cultural Day included the experiences of renowned intellectuals of the Caribbean country who participated in several round tables at the José Martí Memorial during its first day.

The initiative, which ends tomorrow, brings closer to the educational, cultural, and political implications of the transforming project carried out by young people who responded to the call of the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro.