The Centroamérica Cuenta literary festival will once again seek to open a space for reflection on the links between Latin American literature and Spain, from the Central American region.
Among the participants of the talks, which have been held for a week in Costa Rica and from this Monday in Madrid, are emerging and established authors, both from Spain and Latin America.
Centroamérica Cuenta was born in 2013 and is an initiative of the Luisa Mercado Foundation with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (Cosude), the European Union, the Spanish Cultural Action and the University of Guadalajara Foundation.
This literary festival, which arose at the initiative of the writer Sergio Ramírez Mercado and the late Ulises Juárez Polanco, has attracted more than 600 writers, journalists and editors from Germany, Latin America, Central America, Spain, the United States, France, Italy to date. and the Netherlands.
It will be the first activity in which Ramírez Mercado (Masatepe, Nicaragua, 1942) participates after the Public Ministry of his country accused him of "carrying out acts that promote and incite hatred and violence."
The writer and novelist, who was vice president during the first Sandinista government (1979-1990), pointed out to the Nicaraguan president, Daniel Ortega, of having accused him "through his own Prosecutor's Office", and that he is "a writer committed to democracy and for freedom ”and that“ the only weapons I have are words and silence will never be imposed on me ”.