The Spanish language congress in Arequipa closes with out the standard announcement of the venue of the following assembly | Culture | EUROtoday

The tenth International Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE), which ended this Friday in Arequipa (Peru), has closed with out asserting which metropolis will take over in three years, as is common within the closing session. In closing, the president of the Peruvian Academy of Language, Eduardo Hopkins, alluded to the tensions skilled lately. Hopkins has talked about that within the months of preparation, generally the organizers “argued over a dialogue table or an exhibition.” “It was debated because that’s how things are done. It’s discussed, it’s not imposed.”

As for town that may host the following CILE, it should be remembered that the Association of Spanish Language Academies (Asale), which is 23, together with the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), and the Cervantes Institute should agree on the chosen metropolis, usually a secondary faculty, not a big capital. However, evidently the ambiance skilled by the bitter private confrontation between the director of Cervantes, Luis García Montero, and that of the RAE, Santiago Muñoz Machado, was not the best second to deal with a difficulty that might generate a brand new dialogue.

In addition, the candidate metropolis should placed on the desk the cash it prices to arrange a congress of those traits. In this case, the quantity from the Peruvian Government, which invited this medium, has exceeded 4 million euros.

However, even on the final day of the congress there was a disagreement between the organizing establishments. Hours earlier than the tip, Asale has launched an announcement, from which the RAE has determined to exclude itself, “given the content of the deliberation and the agreement adopted”, which refers back to the director of this company, Muñoz Machado. He, who additionally chairs Asale, “has declined to attend the meeting.” It should be remembered that the monetary help of Asale is the RAE itself.

The Asale textual content spells out because of authorities and establishments, with the hanging absence of the Cervantes Institute, co-organizer of the congress along with the Government of Peru, and which is in command of the cultural program of this occasion. The king, Felipe VI, is talked about: “His commitment once again demonstrates the firmness of his support in everything that concerns the strengthening and unity, within the variety, of the Spanish language in our countries.”

Celebrations for Muñoz Machado

Then the leisure arrives for Muñoz Machado. The Asale “wants to recognize, very especially, the firm intellectual and cultural leadership developed by” its president, “which is promoting our organization and common work with very varied, enriching and innovative pan-Hispanic actions.” It is added that Asale “unanimously supports its initiative and shares its program of action both at the institutional level and in the numerous projects that we jointly develop to serve the needs of Spanish speakers around the world in the current complex time.”

Finally, the “satisfaction with the work that has been carried out, developed with great benefit in the three thematic areas that have constituted the subject of the deliberations: mestizaje and interculturality, clear and accessible language, digital cultures and artificial intelligence” is expressed.

The common secretary of Asale, Francisco Javier Pérez, additionally participated within the last session, quoting the Venezuelan author Andrés Bello: “We all make the language.” Pérez harassed that “the times of purism” in relation to the Spanish language “have fortunately been left behind.” In addition, the final secretary of this CILE and tutorial director of the Cervantes Institute, Álvaro García Santa-Cecilia; the author and musicologist Zoila Vega, who jokingly famous that throughout the days of the congress there had not been one of many normal slight seismic actions within the metropolis: “It would have been a good memory.”

Likewise, the final secretary of the Cervantes Institute, Carmen Noguero; the final coordinator of the X CILE, Alonso Ruiz Rosas, who proposed holding a congress on indigenous languages; the rector of the National University of San Agustín, Hugo Rojas Flores, and the mayor of Arequipa, Víctor Hugo Rivera.

With all of the disagreements which have occurred on this CILE, the closing session was grateful for the announcement that of the 2 prizes which were given to Arequipa schoolchildren in a contest wherein they needed to submit a piece on their favourite phrase, one among them was “calm.”