Conference on Martí, Juárez and Lincoln Postponed until October

HAVANA, Cuba, May 5 .The Organizing Committee of the 1st International Conference on Martí, Juárez and Lincoln in Alma de Nuestra América (Soul of The Americas), to be held in Mexico, has been postponed until October, in view of the A H1N1 influenza outbreak.

This epidemic has brought fear of travelling to the Aztec nation among people who had announced their attendance at the meeting slated for May 18 and 19 in Monterrey, as delegates and or speakers, the web site of the Center for Martí Studies reports.

For the new date –from October 15th through to the 17th- the program includes only one change, the inclusion of two panels that will allow for debates on Ernesto Che Guevara on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of his assassination, and on the beginning of Cuba’s
Independence Wars.

Participating in the conference will be academic personalities like Drs. Armando Hart (Cuba), Pablo González Casanova (Mexico) and August Nimitz (USA).

According to the deputy director of the Marti Program and former consul in Monterrey, Cuban Eulogio Rodríguez, some 200 speakers and experts on the work of Benito Juárez, the Mexican National Hero; José Martí, the Apostle of Cuba’s Independence; and Abraham Lincoln, the US President who abolished slavery, will take part in this event.


(Posponen Conferencia Martí, Juárez, Lincoln para octubre)