Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez claims language as homeland in opening speech of the Central America Counts festival. The doors of Santo Domingo are open to writers summoned from different countries, from ours and from other languages.

In diversity freedom begins, and those who join their voices in this country that, if one day knew the brutality of a bloodthirsty dictatorship, has managed, for decades, to walk the path of freedom itself. Because if diversity and freedom are inseparable, no less so are literature, and, again, freedom and democracy.