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The Caribbean is a name that conjures up images of a maelstrom of winds and tides, native dwellers, an American Mediterranean , the possession of which signified the dominion of the world, a kaleidoscopic diversity of cultures, a way of life. Its extensive seaboard and its islands was all territory originally belonging to the great nation of the Caribana, the sea-faring people who dominated the ocean, from the Amazon to the larger Antilles, long before the arrival of Columbus . Our nation, the today free and sovereign República Bolivariana de Venezuela, was formed in the wake of its devastating encounter with the European powers that disputed their rights over The Caribbean and that in turn reduced it, from a sea of men without chiefs or rulers, to a hell of slavery and imperial domination.
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As a consequence of this past, and despite it, other realities have begun to form part of the present. With a view to consolidation and to the opening of further ways to the total emancipation of the region, the peoples of The Caribbean and Latin America are today seeking new horizons towards fair trade and cooperation, just as much in the field of culture as with economic relations among the nations.
This common goal, today being forged in The Caribbean, added to the efforts being made by the Bolivarian Government of Venezuela to decentralize and democratise the culture of reading in the nation through the availability of books for the mass market, gave rise to the occasion planned for November 2005. The objective of this is to bring together publishing houses and agencies from The Caribbean, Latin America and the host country in The International Book Fair Venezuela 2005. For the first time the fair will overspill the Capital's city limits thus turning it into a major event in the nation's cultural calendar. . |
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