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Jamaican Intellectual Highlights Regional Integration.

CUBA, July 5th, 2011.- Prominent Jamaican intellectual Norman Girvan highlighted regional integration as the option for the development of the Caribbean peoples.

During the inaugural lecture of the theoretical event of the Fire Fiesta, Girvan, former General Secretary of the Association of Caribbean States, said that independence and rapprochement between countries are the ways to reorganize the economic systems and life in the region towards progress.

Based on the philosophical and political discourse of Cyril Lionel Robert James and other Latin American thinkers, he pointed out the need to eliminate the colonial mentality existing in some states and to establish territorial policies to solve problems like dependence and indebtedness.

Girvan said that the Caribbean countries have an enormous creative and revolutionary potential divided by languages and by the sea, but linked by historic experience.

Until July 8, at the International Colloquium “The Caribbean that Unites Us,” specialists from some 20 nations will focus on the essence of regional identity and the challenges of the community of this geographic and cultural territory.

Pan-Africanism, resistance, the racial issue, diversity and migrations will be some of the topics the panels will focus their attention on.  The event will take place at the Heredia Cultural Complex, in which National Social Sciences Prize winner Fernando Martínez is also participating. (Cubaminrex-RHC)

 

 

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