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IX Forum of Ministers of Culture and Officials in Charge of Cultural Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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DECLARATION OF CARTAGENA OF INDIES
We are an admirable culture of combinations, one of the richest human cultural conglomerates in the world, having all the conditions to preserve our diversity and our richness facing globalization which intends to dissolve the beneficial differences between the people.
We face unification processes which tend to harm our memory and to blur those things that define us as Latin Americans and Caribbean. We have in front of us a cultural challenge of enormous proportions.
We want our voice to be respected, those wisdoms that have been historically subjugated to find a space to express themselves and leave their imperceptible contribution, their vision of the world and mankind in harmony with nature.
We affirm the need to guarantee the social right to culture in our countries and to establish links of union and solidarity between ourselves based on the consolidation of national identities.
We deeply feel the urgency to get closer and share our identities so as to overcome the evident isolation in which we currently find ourselves.
It seems indispensable to approach, with imagination and audacity, the circumstances that currently gravitate towards the Region in political, economical, social and cultural terms, and transform our vital space into a scenario in which the exercise of creativity, and its enjoyment, is in the center of true and definitive freedom.
It is therefore essential to have exchange of experiences that are useful in strengthening our cultural policies and to enable the wishes for expression of the Latin American and Caribbean people.
In this meeting we have defined various objectives, such as the dissolution of language barriers and the creation of mechanisms of diffusion of the cultural information of the Region. We underline, however, our impatience in improving the results of the Forum.
Our cultural heritage, conceived as something that has been historically developed by a community, identifies us as unique and different from the rest of the people.
Heritage is a creative, dynamic and multidimensional process through which the culture of a society working on its integral growth is fused, protected, enriched and projected.
There are many who come to our countries looking for the old and always new difference that characterizes us and this is precisely one of the most precious gifts we can give humanity. This curiosity about our cultures obliges us to jointly take measures that insure respect for diversity, preservation of heritage as well as essential link between culture and development.
It is our duty to initiate the necessary policies, to find suitable mechanisms so that our current aims turn into realities shared by all as soon as possible. With that, we will respond to the commitment that governments have made to create the conditions for the integral development of our communities.
Today, the Ministers and Officials Responsible for Cultural Policies, gathered in this IX Forum, reiterate our commitment with this set of ideas.
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