More than 300 delegates from 30 countries are attending the Second  International Colloquium on “Jose Marti and Culture of Nature”, which winds up Friday 11th at Havana´s Convention Center. The forum features three main topics: “Ethics and Environment”, “Politics and Environmental Education” and “Sustainable World”.

Some officials at the Colloquium opening included: Minister of Culture and Member of the Political Bureau of the Cuban Communist Party Abel Prieto, Director of the Marti Research Center Armando Hart, Director of the Regional Culture Office for Latin America and the Caribbean and representative of UNESCO in Cuba Herman Van Hoff. The opening ceremony took place at the University of Havana.

The dean of the High Studies Faculty and colloquium coordinator Gustavo Cobreiro said that the subject on Marti’s thinking and his crucial work helped a favorable call of willing people from many countries to meet in Cuba. The purpose of this meeting is make people think of better ways to foster the necessary balance between human being’s welfare and the preservation of the environment both for current and future generations of people. After the Colloquium first meeting in 2004 the situation has turned very serious due to constants aggressions to the environment, he noted.

During the first session of the meeting, Brazilian theologian and member of the International Solidarity Project on José Marti  Frei Betto delivered a special speech about ethics, in which he stressed that Cubans can not cease efforts aimed at building a supportive and happy nation.

“Cuba faces a four-reason reality for being island, being the only socialist country in the western region, for suffering the criminal blockade imposed by the United States, and for assuming the challenges of the fall in the former Soviet Union, and after all this country has withstood this plight, “ Betto added.

Frei Betto also talked about the disastrous results prompted by the social inequality and the increase of richness, as the most rich people, representing the 10 percent  have over the 70 percent  of the world richness, which he described as crime of lese-humanity.

Frei Betto recalled that this discussion debate has the aim of figuring out new methods that help to build a better world as well as the Marti’s thought: “Homeland is Humanity.”

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