Casa de las Américas

Originally a publishing house and information center, it has developed into the best-known and most prestigious cultural institution in Cuba.

The organization was founded by Haydée Santamaría, a member of the 26th of July Movement and one of the few women directly involved in the revolutionary brigades.

[2] Under her leadership, it became over the next two decades a physical and cultural refuge for artists and writers who had been persecuted in their homelands for their advocacy of social justice and opposition to military dictatorship.

It also researches, supports, and publishes the work of writers, sculptors, musicians, and other artists and students of literature and the arts.

The journal began as a literary magazine but has since become a general intellectual review with an equal focus on history and international politics.