Proyecta Iberoamérica # 3

OEI, August 2009, Spain

Without a doubt, the cultural sector in Ibero-America has been substantially consolidated over the last 10 years. Various countries without a Ministry, or even without a cultural institution, have strengthened this sector, conscious of its importance in national policies. The Ibero-American Cultural Charter was born 10 years ago in Bogotá in a meeting called ‘The Third Side of the Coin’ (La Tercera Cara de la Moneda). Since then, many structures that shape the Ibero-American cultural sector have changed. 

The Cultural Charter has silently consolidated its presence. It has given culture its real value in a space whose highest good is creativity. The Ibero-American cultural space does not want to establish itself excluding other cultural spaces. It wants the governments be conscious of its strength, its capability and of the possibility of setting culture as the structure that will enable a strong identity capable of assisting in the insertion process of Ibero-America, as a geocultural concept, in the globalized village. It wants to take advantage of the richness of its creative potential. It wants to establish culture as an identity sign to which everyone feels attached, as a way of living together with the world and to approach the world. The Ibero-American Cultural Charter is compelled to potentiate this road, to consolidate this space, to assist the new legislations, to bring about new initiatives. The Charter might be the most modern instrument that a group of presidents has ever approved to revitalize the cultural sector. It is our responsibility to take advantage of it in the best possible way.

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