Raúl Roa y Jorge Mañach. Actualización de una polémica

Given his strong temperament, Raúl Roa, the Chancellor of Dignity, did not usually miss a chance to point out statements considered unjust or harmful to the revolutionary interests, by fighting it with his pen and speech. In his polemic debates, he had in his favor his brilliant and sharp intelligence and a vast culture, as well as an extraordinary ability to find the essential and defining edges of the problem under debate, and to project them with solid and compelling arguments. In his polemic with Jorge Mañach, a Cuban intellectual who worked between the 1920s and 1960s, his peculiar style is highlighted, in which one can appreciate, togetherwith a polished and educated language, popular expressions that give his prose a rich Cuban flavor.Dado su fogoso temperamento, Raúl Roa, el Canciller de la Dignidad, no solía dejar pasar planteamiento alguno que fuese considerado injusto o lesivo a los intereses revolucionarios, sin combatirlo con su pluma en ristre. En sus debates polémicos, tenía a su favor su brillante y aguda inteligencia, y una amplia y profunda cultura, además de una extraordinaria habilidad para encontrar las aristas esenciales y definitorias del problema objeto de debate, y proyectarlas con sólidos y contundentes argumentos. En la polémica con Jorge Mañach, intelectual cubano que despliega su labor entre los años 20-60, queda a relieve su peculiar estilo, donde se aprecia, junto a un lenguaje pulido y culto, expresiones populares que le dan a su prosa un criollísimo sabor