Holguín hosts Ibero-American Congress of Thought

The 18th Ibero-American Congress of Thought, held in thye city of Holguin as part of the Ibero-American Culture Festival, started with the posthumous awarding of the distinction "Casa de Iberoamérica" to Cuban intellectual and revolutionary Armando Hart.

The award was received by Mr. Hart’s widow Eloísa María Carreras Varona—director of the Archive and House Museum named after the renowned thinker and statesman—who also gave the lecture "Hart, una vida y un sueño hecho realidad en la Casa de Iberoamérica" [Hart, a life and a dream come true at the Ibero-America House] about the ideology that her late husband championed throughout his life and his devotion to Fidel Castro Ruz and José Martí.

In her opening remarks, Isairis Rojas Paris, chair of the Organizing Committee of the Ibero-American Culture Festival, defined the event as an effort to overcome differences that turns the city of Holguin into the capital of art and philosophy in eastern Cuba.

Established in 2005, the Ibero-American Congress of Thought was motivated by the need to promote dialogue within the region with a view to theoretical and scientific debate.