HAVANA—One of the dozens of new books launched at the 16th Havana International Book Fair was Pathfinder’s The First and Second Declarations of Havana. The February 13 book presentation featured a panel of speakers including José Ramón Fernández, vice president of Cuba’s Council of Ministers; Mario Rodríguez of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution; Fernando Rojas, president of the Federation of University Students in Havana; Gladys Hernández of the Center for Research on the World Economy (CIEM); and Mary-Alice Waters, the book’s editor and president of Pathfinder. Iraida Aguirrechu of the Cuban publisher Editora Política chaired the event. Some 75 people attended the meeting, where 64 copies of the book were sold, 17 of them in English.

From left: Rojas, Rodríguez, Fernández, Waters, Aguirrechu, and Hernández.

—MARTÍN KOPPEL