The Academy of History of Cuba was created by Presidential Decree on August 20th, 1910, whose existence today evokes the country to 115 years.
In its beginnings it was independent, attached to the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts. In June 1914 he was granted his own legal personality and full civil capacity for all legal purposes.
He was directed by an honorary president, a secretary and a librarian, being his first president Fernando Figueredo.
After several years of inactivity, the Cuban state resumed its sessions in 2011.
The fundamental mission, now as a Cuba History Association, is to safeguard the historical legacy of the Nation and for this cultivates. Encourages and disseminates its study, in order to proclaim historical truth and reaffirm national identity.
The renewed institution has the responsibility of convening, gathering, supporting and, above all, to erect an instrument. So that the cultural and educational policy that has history as motivation, is really correct and wise interpretation.
Also that it begins with the exercise of knowing how to seek origins and, at the same time, respect the evolution of thought in time in Cuba.
With Information From Prensa Latina
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernandez
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