Fernando Martínez Heredia

Fernando Martínez Heredia

Fernando Ramón Martínez Heredia (Yaguajay, January 21, 1939-Havana, June 12, 2017) was a Cuban educator, philosopher and politician.

He fought against the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in the ranks of the July 26 Movement. After the revolution triumphed, he graduated with a Bachelor of Education. He worked as a Social Sciences teacher at the Lazo de la Vega School. Later he was professor of Philosophy at the University of Havana and director of its Department of Philosophy. He participated as a member of the group that developed the "Plan for the universalization of education and access to higher education"; He was also part of the research group on Higher Education. He was a postgraduate professor and gave lectures on social issues at various institutions in Cuba and nineteen other countries, in which he worked as a visiting professor or researcher.

He is a researcher of Cuban and Latin American social reality at the University of Havana, the Center for Western European Studies, the Center for American Studies, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Humanities and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He worked at the Juan Marinello Cuban Institute for Cultural Research, where he was president of the "Antonio Gramsci" chair of studies.