The Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Roberto Morales, said on the social network X that “we will always be proud of his artistic and revolutionary value”.

For his part, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero referred to his work and assured that his “very Cuban verses continue to call to join, for #Cuba, all hands”.

Nicolás Guillén was a poet, journalist and political activist.

As an Afro-descendant, he vindicated black culture within the processes of miscegenation and transculturation, which he called Cuban color.

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