Important Cuban artists such as musicians Frank Fernandez and Edesio Alejandro, and the actors Osvaldo Doimeadiós, Isabel Santos and Mirtha Ibarra, received this week the title of Doctor Honoris Causa awarded by the Anglo-Hispanomexicana University of Puebla, Mexico.
The investiture gala took place on the afternoon of March 7 in the Hemicycle of Universal Art of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Havanawhere 21 figures from different spheres of culture and science were distinguished, 17 of them Cuban.
The honorees received the distinction for “their proven professional and academic career”, as well as for being each one of them “leading role model in situations of social commitment” and for “their proven philanthropic empathy”, among other reasons, according to with the magazine Opus Havana.
In addition to the aforementioned artists, the Cubans Libia Batista (casting director), Joaquín Borges Triana (journalist), Otro Braña (radio director), Juan Carlos García del Vallín (radio director) and Aramís Acosta (radio director) also deserved the title. film producer).
José Manuel García (music producer), Argel Calcines (journalist and editor), Randy Alonso (journalist), Jorge Antonio Fernández (art historian), Omar Valiño (writer and art critic) and Daniel Martín (artist and businessman) were also recognized. ).
The Anglo-Hispanomexicana University of Puebla was founded in 1992 by Dr. Raúl Ramírez Enriquez, its current Rector, who was present at the delivery of the new Honoris Causa doctorates in the Cuban capital, along with other members of the Mexican doctoral faculty, the source points out. .
Said center of higher studies is characterized by its careers with a humanistic profile and has maintained academic relations with Cuba since 2014, he said. Opus Havana.
In addition, it maintains an alliance with the Latin Music Institute, whose president, the Cuban Daniel Martín Subiaut, was among the figures recognized on this occasion.