Stands with handicrafts and typical objects, exhibitions with paintings and photographs, presentations by artists and culinary offers fill the colorful corridors and halls of the multilateral entity these days, which, in the voice of its general director, Audrey Azoulay, welcomed the celebration and its participants.
In the opening remarks, Azoulay recognized the cultural diversity of Latin America and the Caribbean, and highlighted the variety of proposals to share with the world this week.
We will have music, dance, exhibitions and other activities to pay tribute to a region with exceptional diversity, marked by its aboriginal peoples and miscegenation, he stressed.
The Latin American and Caribbean Week dedicates its 2022 edition to creative cultural industries and African heritage, themes reflected in many of the activities scheduled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) .
Azoulay highlighted in his speech the links between UNESCO and Latin American personalities, such as the Mexican poet Jaime Torres Bodet, general director of the organization from 1948 to 1952, and the former ambassadors of Chile and Argentina, the poet Pablo Neruda and the filmmaker Fernando “Pino » Sunny.
He also cited the figure of Havana historian Eusebio Leal, whom UNESCO remembered yesterday, and Mexican actress Yalitza Aparicio, Goodwill Ambassador for Indigenous Peoples.
At the installation ceremony, the Paraguayan ambassador to the multilateral entity, Nancy Ovelar, said on behalf of the Latin American and Caribbean Group (Grulac) that the public will be able to enjoy during the week samples of gastronomy, history, literature, crafts, music, dance, painting and photography of the region.
Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela are among the countries with a large contribution per week that reflects the wealth of that part of the world.
Ovelar spent a few minutes signifying the commitment to peace of Latin Americans and Caribbeans.
In complex and uncertain times, it is good to highlight that if there is a place in the world where UNESCO’s peace objectives are embodied, it is in our region and we say it with pride (…), the only wars we wage are against ignorance and poverty, he said.
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