Cuba’s Culture mourns the death of PhD Eduardo Torres Cuevas

Havana, Aug 31 (Prensa Latina) The cultural world in Cuba lost one of its leading exponents with the death, at the age of 82, of the distinguished Cuban academic, historian, and university professor Eduardo Torres Cuevas.

August 31, 2025
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A PhD in Historical Sciences, researcher, and professor, he taught at various faculties of the University of Havana, Enrique Jose Varona Higher Pedagogical Institute, and the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana, among other higher education institutions.

Torres Cuevas, recipient of the National Prize for Social Sciences (2000) and the National Prize for History (2005), is a member of the National Union of Historians of Cuba, the Association of Caribbean Historians, the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), and the New York Academy of Sciences.

He also serves on the National Commission for Scientific Degrees of the Republic of Cuba, the National History Tribunal for the Defense and Granting of Scientific Degrees, the Advisory Boards of the Social Sciences Publishing House, the Center for Marti Studies, and the Cuban History Institute.

His literary catalog includes the titles Anthology of Medieval Thought (1975), Jose Antonio Saco. About Slavery and its History (1982, in collaboration with Arturo Sorhegui), Felix Varela. The Origins of Cuban Science and Consciousness (1995), and Antonio Maceo: The Ideas That Sustain the Weapon (1995), to name just a few.

His texts enhance the prestige of the magazine Caribe, which he founded and edited. Yearbook of Marti Studies, Casa de las Americas, Contracorriente, Debates Americanos, Del Caribe, Journal of the Jose Marti National Library, Alma Mater, Bohemia, El Caiman Barbudo, Correo de Cuba, La Gaceta de Cuba, Revolucion y Cultura, Opus Habana, Cuadernos Americanos (Mexico), and L’avenc (Spain).

He has received numerous awards and recognitions throughout his career, including the Distinction for National Culture (1996), the National Prize from the Cuban Academy of Sciences, and the Social Sciences Critics Award (for his books Antonio Maceo: The Ideas That Sustain the Weapon and Felix Varela: The Origins of Cuban Science and Consciousness).

In 2000, he received the Felix Varela Prize awarded by the Economic Society of Friends of the Country, and in 2006, he was elected a Full Member of the Cuban Academy of Language.

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