Cubadebate
After intense days of debates, the third edition of the Patria International Colloquium concluded in Havana, which took place since last March 18 at the Pabexpo facilities with the attendance of more than 200 participants from 31 countries.
The closing of the meeting, which focused the analysis on the need to draw up strategies for the articulation of progressive thought around digital communication and the appropriation of new virtual platforms, was attended by Rogelio Polanco, head of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the Party Communist of Cuba; the vice prime minister Inés María Chapman and the president of the Union of Journalists of Cuba, Ricardo Ronquillo Bello.
The final declaration of the event states in one of its parts:
“Today in Our America, the people and their communicators confront the right and its new extreme articulations. They advance by implementing the ideological schemes of individualism, polarization and rejection of cultural diversity. They try to break solidarity between peoples and people with the strategic objective of subduing the political, economic and social sovereignty of our states and nations.
“At Patria we start from the firm conviction that the political practice and articulation of our present are going through a process of rapid and accelerated transformation that forces us to adapt our conceptions and provide ourselves with our own tools to make our political practice an effective instrument for the construction of a more just world.