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Jose Marti's Ideas Spread Internationally

CUBA, January 30, 2008.-The movement to study the ideas of Jose Marti has widely extended internationally. In that way Marti's thoughts contribute to finding solutions to contemporary problems, mainly in Latin America: by promoting integration, alerting of US expansionism, and warning of the need to be better educated, and thus, freer.

Numerous universities and other educational centers are studying Marti in countries including Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Spain and France, with the United States to be added soon, informed Hector Hernandez Pardo, coordinator of the Global Council of the Jose Marti International Solidarity Project sponsored by UNESCO, which met in Havana on Tuesday as part of the Second International Conference on World Equilibrium.

It's not just about a group of persons attracted by the legacy of Cuba's national hero, but instead a movement that with certain institutional support carries out investigations, publishes and teaches courses.

French intellectual Jean Lamore, who wrote the first biography of Marti in French, said another task lies in trying to spread Marti's thinking, without distortion, in the United States, where an open public is waiting for it.

Tuesday's session at the conference began with a lecture by Armando Hart, director of the Marti Program Office, in which he emphasized applying the ideas of Marti to politics, education and human development.

A moving moment in the program came when Maria Eugenio Lopez, a professor from Mexico, handed Hart a bronze statue of Mexican national hero Benito Juarez made by sculptor Gustavo Martinez, as a gift to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro. (Cubaminrex-RHC)

 

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