La Paz, November 6 (Prensa Latina) The Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916) is the focus today of the tribute of the Reading Club of La Paz, Bolivia, after the screening of the film La Princesa Paca (2017) by the Spanish director Joaquín Calls at.
The headquarters of the Goethe-Institut in La Paz hosted the beginning of this day in the presence of the Nicaraguan ambassador Elías Cheves and almost a hundred participants moved by the love story between the prince of Latin American modernism and the Spaniard Francisca Sánchez (Paca) (1879- 1963).
Daughter of a King Alfonso
However, after meeting Darío and learning to read and write from him, despite the prejudices of the time, she became the Bard’s last and great love, which is why she was christened Princess Paca by the poet Amado Nervo.
As a thank you for the large attendance, Cheves brought those present a greeting from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo, also a poet.
He noted that the cycle will include lectures by scholars from Argentina, Bolivia and Nicaragua on the Darian work, both on a literary level and from the perspective of the patriotic and social concerns of the author of the anti-imperialist ode to Roosevelt.
Cheves recalled Rubén Darío’s admiration for the Cuban independence hero José Martí (1853-1895) and his love for Nicaragua, El Salvador, Argentina and Chile, the countries where he lived.
He emphasized in particular that the greatest representative of literary modernism in Latin America was a staunch promoter of Central American and continental unity against the interventionism of the United States towards this part of the world and, in particular, towards his native Nicaragua.
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