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Vol. 71/No. 43      November 19, 2007

 
Athens event launches ‘Declarations of Havana’
(Pathfinder Around the World column)
 
BY GEORGES MEHRABIAN  
ATHENS—A well-attended meeting was held here October 21 to celebrate the publication of the new Arabic and Greek editions of The First and Second Declarations of Havana. It was sponsored by the Cuban embassy and Diethnes Vima, the Athens-based publisher of the new books.

Cuban chargé d’affaires José Cala told the audience, “The Declarations explain how the plunder of Latin America provided a basis for the development of capitalism and imperialism in Europe. This plunder continues in new guises, making the Declarations as relevant today as they were 45 years ago.”

The other speakers at the event were Nikos Karandreas, president of the Greek-Cuban Friendship Association, and Natasha Terlexis, president of Diethnes Vima.

Cala introduced two special guests, the chargé d’affaires of the Venezuelan embassy and the ambassador of Palestine.

More than 50 people attended the event. Participants included five airport workers and several immigrant workers from the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

Fourteen copies of the book were sold at the meeting: eight in Greek, five in Arabic, and one in Spanish, along with five other titles on the Cuban Revolution.

In the month leading up to the event, 24 copies of the new books were sold at political events, while 50 copies of the Greek-language edition were bought by the Greek-Cuban Friendship Society for their kiosks and 56 were ordered by local bookstores. The October 23 issue of Rizospastis, the Communist Party of Greece daily, carried a report on the book launch.  
 
 
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