With a master lecture given by Dr. Pedro Pablo Rodríguez, from the Cuban Centre for Studies on Martí, was constituted the first José Martí Chair in a Chilean university.
This discipline favors wider studies on the pro-Latin American thinking of the apostle of the Cuban independence, José Martí, in the University of Arts and Social Sciences (UARCIS).
The opening ceremony held in the university venue in the Chilean capital was attended by hundreds of Chilean students and academicians. Also a photographic exhibition on the life and work of José Martí was opened, according to a report from Prensa Latina.
Rodríguez, who donated to the UARCIS library the first 16 volumes of the Reviewed Edition of the Complete Works of José Martí, stressed the validity of Martí´s ideas in the area, where ―he said―, times seem to boost the ways of Latin-American integration.
In his lecture, the Cuban researcher and journalist emphasized that Martí faced the first American charge for dominance through a call to continental unity and the attempt to contribute in a practical way to it fighting for the Cuban independence.
Professor Rodríguez was introduced by Olga Fernández, academic counselor at the Cuban embassy, who stressed the importance of a Chilean university like UARCIS, having a Marti Chair and she thanked the university authorities for it.
During the ceremony ―attended by the ambassadors of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua among other authorities―, also participated Carlos Margotta, rector of UARCIS, and Jorge Benítez, coordinator to the Chair, who assessed the initiative.
(Cubarte)
The opening ceremony held in the university venue in the Chilean capital was attended by hundreds of Chilean students and academicians. Also a photographic exhibition on the life and work of José Martí was opened, according to a report from Prensa Latina.
Rodríguez, who donated to the UARCIS library the first 16 volumes of the Reviewed Edition of the Complete Works of José Martí, stressed the validity of Martí´s ideas in the area, where ―he said―, times seem to boost the ways of Latin-American integration.
In his lecture, the Cuban researcher and journalist emphasized that Martí faced the first American charge for dominance through a call to continental unity and the attempt to contribute in a practical way to it fighting for the Cuban independence.
Professor Rodríguez was introduced by Olga Fernández, academic counselor at the Cuban embassy, who stressed the importance of a Chilean university like UARCIS, having a Marti Chair and she thanked the university authorities for it.
During the ceremony ―attended by the ambassadors of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua among other authorities―, also participated Carlos Margotta, rector of UARCIS, and Jorge Benítez, coordinator to the Chair, who assessed the initiative.
(Cubarte)