# They Mourn the Death of Prensa Latina Founder Alexis Codina

**Date:** 09/10/2021

The founder of Prensa Latina and academic Alexis Codina passed away today at the age of 79, as confirmed by the dean of the Faculty of Accounting and Finance at the University of Havana, Rafael Montejo.

Codina, born in the Cayo Hueso neighborhood, supported the transformations of the revolutionary process and contributed to them with important research work in the economic area and teaching training, the dean assured on the social network Facebook.

He was a collaborator of Ernesto Che Guevara as an accountant for the Consolidated Flour Company and one of the first workers of the Latin American News Agency Prensa Latina.

He was also part of the founders of the Communist Party of Cuba at the University of Havana and of the economic research teams encouraged by the historic leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, at the beginning of the 1970s in sugar mills, farms and factories.

As part of his academic work, he held the positions of dean and vice-rector of the economic areas and of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Havana.

He taught subjects such as Political Economy, Finance and Management, among others.

He achieved the scientific degree of doctor in Economic Sciences in the former Soviet Union and defended his second-level doctorate in Sciences in 2016.

He was also a member of the Academy of Sciences of Cuba and was awarded the National Prize for Economics 2006, the Carlos J. Finlay Order of the State Council, the Arango and Parreño Prize of the Economic Society of Friends of the Country.

Codina left an extensive published body of teaching, scientific and informational texts, on economic, financial, and especially management topics.