Friday, March 18, 2016

Spanish diverse but united closes the CILE 2016 – The Universal

The unity in diversity, dialogue of the tongue with the arts and sciences, and pride to speak the language of Cervantes and Ruben Dario chaired the VII International Congress of the Spanish Language in Puerto Rico , where the pulse of the creative energy of Spanish was taken on both sides of the Atlantic.

More than 8,000 people have visited since last Tuesday until today to activities carried out within the Congress, for the that 287 journalists were accredited, according to data provided by the secretary General of the Instituto Cervantes, Rafael Rodriguez-Ponga.

Academics, writers, artists and creators have met in San Juan within this congress to honor Miguel de Cervantes, the fourth centenary of his death, like the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and Ruben Dario, in the centennial, which have joined those made Pedro Salinas and Juan Ramon Jimenez.

Rodriguez-Ponga thanked the King and Queen of Spain the effort to go to Puerto Rico to preside over the opening of the congress, showing its continued support to the culture and language in Spanish.

“After tantop puertorriqueñismoy puuertorriqueñeidad, we will puertorriqueñeizados forever,” he said.

the secretary general of Cervantes explained how those attending this conference share their love for the Spanish language, “which against all odds be the language of Puerto Rico.

“Puerto Rico is a global example of language loyalty and vindication of cultural freedom,” Rodriguez-Ponga, who made a eulogy of Spanish teachers said.

the director of the Royal Academy of the Puerto Rican language, José Luis Vega, described the congress as the first held in a Caribbean country and recalled the heterogeneity of the language spoken by 500 million people of which only 10 percent (47 million) are Spanish, while 51 speakers in the United States and 120 in Mexico.

However, he acknowledged that, of the 22 nations that share the Spanish language, none as Spain has invested so much symbolic capital make the language a tool of all.

“Talking Spanish of Puerto Rico is a matter of proper law which falls within the scope of the Spanish language in America and more specifically the Caribbean,” Vega said.

is a “townie, sailor, island and southern Spanish. He ajibaró, he is acriolló and spilled over urban areas. A Spanish great creativity, endurance and literary content, “he said the academic, who expressed pride” by the language we are and speak. “

But warned that” the tongue can not be left to itself luck “and he expressed concern about the trend,” lambasting the recommendations of rigor or polishing style “when this desire is a” matter of social justice “:” the language is power and contain their own passwords inclusion and exclusion we must know “.

the Cuban Leonardo Padura, who expressed regret that there has been no official presence of any member of the Cuban Academy of Language by visa problems, delivered a speech entitled” the city of words “.

Padura recalled that there is no other city like Havana has curdled its unique image” using stone walls and mortar of words “.

and explained how in Cuba, as in Puerto Rico, outside the emancipation policy, the commitment to create a people with its own characteristics before the independent country emerged.

the Puerto Rican author Luce López-Baralt spoke of dialogue around Cervantes writers on both sides of the Atlantic and recalled how “the chroniclers saw the Americas through the prism of the chivalric romances” and argued that “Cervantes, intimately, loved the supernatural.”

to mark the end Congress, after the formal closure, the capital will live tonight a music festival with a concert by La Sonora Ponceña sauce, Oscar D’Leon and El Gran Combo in the Plaza del Quinto Centenario in Old San Juan.

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