The Minister of Culture, Tristán Bauer, and the Argentine ambassador to Ecuador, Gabriel Fuks, participated this Tuesday in various tribute activities, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Meeting of the Liberators José de San Martin and Simón Bolívar in Guayaquil, together with Ecuadorian national and local authorities.
In a quote to Pope Francis, Bauer noted that “Latin America is still on that slow path, of struggle, of the dream of San Martín and Bolivar for the unity of the region“.
And he added that Latin America “always was and will be a victim, until liberation is complete, of exploitative imperialism,” a definition that the Pontiff pronounced in a recent interview with Télam.
“The dream of San Martín and Bolívar is a prophecy: that meeting of the entire Latin American people, beyond ideology, with sovereignty,” said the Argentine minister at the opening of the Conversation for the Liberators of America, in which historians participated. Argentines, Chileans, Peruvians, Venezuelans, Colombians and Ecuadorians.
There was a debate about the projection of the bicentennial and the unfinished tasks of the Latin American Unity, among other issues.
The meeting was attended by the president of the Sanmartinian Institute, Eduardo Garcia Caffi, together with the Consul Paula Casado Sastre and military attaches.
Minister Bauer will continue this Wednesday with his activities for the 200 years of the embrace of the two liberators with the placement of a profile of José de San Martín forged by the Argentine sculptor Alejandro Marmo.
The work will be installed on the boardwalk over the Guayas River, in the city of Guayaquil.
This Wednesday, in addition, the activities with the historians will conclude and a working meeting of Bauer, Fuks and García Caffi will continue, with the head of the Ecuadorian Culture portfolio, María Elena Machuca.