Historians will gather to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Ayacucho

Published at: 22/11/2024 10:50 AM

From December 7 to 8, historians will gather at the headquarters of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Rómulo Gallegos (CELARG), to hold the International Colloquium “ Ayacucho 1824-2024: Unity, Sovereignty and Peace”.

This was announced by the president of the Simon Bolivar Study Center (CESB) and president of CELARG, Pedro Calzadilla; the national coordinator of the History, Memory and Heritage Network, Antonio Bracho; the president of the National Center for Historical Studies (CNEH), Omar Hurtado; the director of the General Archive of the Nation, Rosario Soto; the director of the General Archive of the Nation, Jorge Berrueta, and the secretary of the Historical Observatory of Caracas and president of the Carmen Clemente Travieso Training and Research Center of the Mayor's Office of Caracas, Gladys Arroyo.

Barrueta reported that 20 speakers from various countries will participate, including: Peru, Colombia, Panama, Cuba, Argentina, Spain, Honduras, Mexico and Puerto Rico, who will speak on military, political, social and cultural aspects of the Battle of Ayacucho, as well as on the validity of Bolivarian thought and doctrine in the light of current events.

He pointed out that this activity is the closing of more than 40 cultural and training activities organized at the national level by the institutions that make up the Insurgent History Movement, together with the Presidential Commission for the Commemoration of the Bicentennial; the History, Memory and Heritage Network; the Association of Latin American and Caribbean Historians (ADHILAC) and the Diploma Course Life and Work of El Libertador Simón Bolívar, organized by CESB.

He invited students, teachers and social science professionals to register through the link that will be available on all the social networks of the organizing institutions .

For his part, Pedro Calzadilla valued the importance of the celebration of the Bicentennial of the Battle of Ayacucho as an opportunity to pay tribute to that other liberator who is Antonio José de Sucre.

“Ayacucho is of great value to us as our Americans, Bolivarians and revolutionaries, because it is above all a symbol of the unity of Our America,” he said.

This event is part of an agenda of activities organized on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of this historic event that ended the War of Independence in the American continent and represented the realization of the unity project of El Libertador Simón Bolívar.

VTV/Mazo News Team