With the presence of Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez; and heads of state Nicolás Maduro, from Venezuela; Evo Morales, from Bolivia; Salvador Sánchez Cerén, from El Salvador; and more than 630 delegates and guests, the Final Declaration of Havana was read, as well as an action plan for the coming year.

Mónica Valente, executive secretary of the organization, described the event as emblematic and thanked the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba and our people for the effort made to host the event, opening our arms to the struggles of peoples around the region and the world.

Resolutions from sector meetings were presented, and debates summarized, while an international campaign to demand “Freedom for Lula now” was launched, with a worldwide twitter effort planned for this coming August.

The closing remarks were made by José Ramón Machado Ventura, Party second secretary, who recalled that, for Fidel, the word ‘defeat ‘ never existed, only temporary setbacks, since as long as there is injustice, there will be revolutions.

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The book belongs to the collection Letras Urgentes (Urgent Lyrics), published by Prensa Latina’s publishing house, whose purpose is to address current Latin American and the Caribbean issues based on the contributions from the news agency’s correspondents and experts in Havana.

The book, which will be presented on February 15 at 14:00 pm in the Jose Antonio Portuondo Hall in the Morro-Cabaña complex, published in cooperation with the Ciencial Sociales publishing house (Social Sciences) and includes features, interviews, columns and articles about indigenous peoples.

In the foreword, President Evo Morales defines the book as “an unprecedented approach to the reality of our peoples”, and indicates that it will allow future generations to learn about aspects of the culture of our grandparents and founders, as well as the continuity of their lessons.

According to Morales, the book refers to the period prior to Christopher Colombus’ arrival, when the continent was a single land: Abya Yala, which means land full of maturity or land of life blood.

This is the second title of the Letras Urgentes collection, after “SOS Amazon”, a collection of works by Prensa Latina correspondents in that Bolivia.

“Abya Yala, An Indigenous View” contains fifty works written by 25 authors who reflect how in their transit through the 21st Century, Latin American native people demand fair recognition of their ancestral values in the future.

It also deals about aspects of indigenous people’s participation in parliamentary and governmental institutions in the context of the current process in the region, and about issues related to the defense of language and other native cultural expressions.

by www.prensa-latina.cu