[NYTr] Armando Hart Calls Upon Scholars to Preserve Historical Memory

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Armando Hart Calls Upon Scholars to Preserve Historical Memory

Havana, Nov 29(acn) President of the Jose Marti Cultural Society, Dr.
Armando Hart, stressed the importance of culture to rescue the human 
genre's historical memory at a keynote lecture given at the Global 
Democracy and Development Foundation, in Santo Domingo, in Dominican 
Republic.

During his lecture, Hart referred to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti's 
thought on the necessity of a balanced world and on the importance of 
avoiding the spreading of the US imperialist power throughout Latin 
America.

The Cuban official noted that that will be the main topic of debate at 
an international conference to take place in Havana in January and 
invited all the participants at the lecture to attend the event, 
reports PL news agency.

Hart highlighted the works of former Dominican president and writer 
Juan Bosch, and called upon the scholars to act to save humanity 
through the ideals of Marti, Bosch, Duarte, Juarez and Bolivar.

The lecture was attended by Cuban ambassador Juan Astiasaran, 
high-ranking government officials, and a number of Dominican scholars.