Since last
Monday, experts on social and economic sciences, politicians and
representatives from world and regional organizations have
approached - from different perspectives - several phenomena such as
the current international crisis, unemployment, integration, and the
imperial and right-wing threats against Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Today’s agenda includes the lecture “The Crisis as Reorganization of
Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism”, by Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, from
the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); and the panel
“In Defense of Humanity”, with the participation of Brazilian
Theotonio Dos Santos, Oscar Ugarteche from UNAM, Havana Historian
Eusebio Leal, and Miguel Barnet, President of the Cuban Union of
Artists and Writers (UNEAC).
The program also includes the screening of the documentary “Villa
Esperanza” (Hope Village) by Cuban filmmaker Otto Miguel Guzman,
followed by Elis Alberto Gonzalez Polanco, Director of the Central
Unit of Medical Cooperation of the Cuban Public Health Ministry, who
will speak about the island’s assistance to Haiti in this field.
In the morning session, working commissions discuss topics such as
“Art and Literature and their Role for Development” and “Logistics
in Globalization”. Also on Friday, Professor Ugarteche will present
his book “A Critical History of the International Monetary Fund.”
The closing ceremony is scheduled for Friday afternoon.
