Science is not only a pure and natural source of knowledge. It is not only methods, algorithms, calculations, experiments. Science is, clearly, an indispensable requirement for the full independence and sovereignty of peoples.
This is how the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution understood it, from the immensity of his preclarity of thought. In an unequal world, in which the most important discoveries are also commodities, and are monopolized by power, developing a broad scientific potential can make, literally speaking, as we have seen very recently, even the difference between life and death.
That is why, among the many dreams of which he was the architect, Fidel promoted the transformation of Cuba into a country of men and women of science and thought.
Under his leadership, his sharp, curious and restless gaze, science was also one of the many revolutions we have waged within the mother work. Along with the research centers of the most dissimilar branches, a maxim also grew: that of scientifically supporting the vital processes that took place within Cuban society.
Little by little, that premise became an indispensable requirement for professional improvement, for academic training at any educational level, for the integral preparation of the generations born in the heat of this work.
The Homeland owes much to the Creole science, to its own, which together with the bonds of cooperation and solidarity founded over the years, has built a very high prestige, both for the quality and depth of its results and proposals, as well as for the human quality and talent of those who develop it.
In perfect symbiosis with the fidelist legacy, with the unrenounceable principles of continuity, Cuba today sustains a system of government with science and innovation as its flags and, why not, as a shield against the blows of the blockade and the insecurities in which the planet is struggling.
It was an indisputable beacon in the dark days of the pandemic, in order to bring the ship of health and life to a safe harbor, while others were irretrievably shipwrecked.
That is why January 15 is a memorable date in this land, for Fidel's dream come true, for the brilliant road traveled and because this is still and will be a country where science is the key to thinking and doing.
