{"id":395221,"date":"2019-02-05T13:07:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/international-conference-for-peace-and-world-balance-supports-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2019-02-05T13:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:07:13","slug":"international-conference-for-peace-and-world-balance-supports-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/international-conference-for-peace-and-world-balance-supports-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference for Peace and \u201cWorld Balance\u201d Supports Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Close to 700 conferees from 65 countries convened in Havana, Cuba from January 28-31, for peace and \u201cworld balance.\u201d This, the fourth such conference, was dedicated to honoring the ideals of Cuban national hero Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed who died in 1895 at the age of 42 fighting for independence from colonial Spain. The event was organized by the Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed Project of International Solidarity, which is sponsored by UNESCO.<\/p>\n<p>An overarching theme of the conference was the urgency for international solidarity with the democratically elected Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro who is under attack by the US and its minions. Another prominent issue was the struggle to free the unjustly imprisoned former President of Brazil Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva.<\/p>\n<p>The wide-ranging conference addressed the \u201cmost pressing issues that have an impact on humanity\u201d from global warming, to feminism, to cyber democracy, to sustainability. Well known personalities from all over the world included Spanish intellectual Ignacio Ramonet, Brazilian liberation theologian Frei Betto, historian of Havana Eusebio Leal, and a representative of the Vatican. Aleida Guevara, daughter of Che, spoke during the panel on solidarity along with Puerto Rican fighter for independence Oscar L\u00f3pez Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>The first plenary session was attended by newly elected Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel and leading members of the Cuban government and Communist Party. They sat on the main stage without fanfare or even&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2019\/02\/international-conference-for-peace-and-world-balance-supports-venezuela\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 700 conferees from 65 countries convened in Havana, Cuba from January 28-31, for peace and \u201cworld balance.\u201d This, the fourth such conference, was dedicated to honoring the ideals of Cuban national hero Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed who died in 1895 at the age of 42 fighting for independence from colonial Spain. The event was organized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}