The Yucatan Chapter of the Conference is led by intellectuals Jaime Magos, Rubén Reyes, Carlos Bojórquez, Eduardo Sobrino, Ariel Avilés, Verónica García, Carlos González, Abelardo Vega, José Enrique Avilé and composer Jorge Buenfil.

The purpose of this organization will be to promote the attendance of intellectuals and academics at the conference scheduled for January 2023 in Havana, Cuba, they explained.

The founding ceremony was held in the Aula Magna Reynaldo Bolio, Pacheli of the “José Martí” University of Mérida and was presided over, together with the hosts, by Héctor Hernández, deputy director of the Office of Marti Studies Program in Cuba, and general coordinator of the International Conference.

Hernández explained the objectives and scope of the conference, the repercussions it has had since its establishment 19 years ago, and the level of excellence of participants such as the former presidents of Brazil, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva, and Uruguay, José Mujica, and urged those present to put all their efforts into publicizing the new meeting.

The event brought together an important group of Yucatecan intellectuals, academics, politicians and social leaders, who were interested in the possibility of participating in the January event in Cuba.

The Cuban consul in Yucatan, Raisel Calvo, participated in the ceremony, who greeted the directors of the Yucatecan Chapter of the conference and recognized as very positive the initiative of creating the institution in these peninsular lands so close geographically and emotionally to Cuba and its people.

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