The Diplomat
Next Friday, November 11, the IX International Congress of the Spanish Language (CILE), to be held in Arequipa (Peru) from March 27 to 30, 2023, will be presented in Arequipa.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru, César Landa Arroyo; the director of the Instituto Cervantes, Luis García Montero; the director of the Royal Spanish Academy and president of the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE), Santiago Muñoz Machado, and the rector of the National University of San Agustín (Arequipa), Hugo Rojas Flores, will take part in the event.
The meeting will provide information for the first time on the thematic content of this pan-Hispanic event, which the community of Spanish-speaking countries has been organizing every three years since 1997, and which on this occasion will be held in the birthplace of Spanish-Peruvian Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa.
The theme of the congress and the names of some of its most prominent participants, including writers, academics, professors, scientists, journalists and other experts related to the Spanish language and Spanish-language culture, will also be unveiled.
The event will take place from 6:30 p.m. (Spanish peninsular time, 12:30 p.m. in Peru) in the auditorium of the National University of San Agustin de Arequipa (c/ San Agustin, 106). It can be followed live on the Instituto Cervantes YouTube channel.
Previous Spanish language congresses have been held in Zacatecas (Mexico, 1997), Valladolid (Spain, 2001), Rosario (Argentina, 2004), Cartagena de Indias (Colombia, 2007), Valparaíso (Chile, 2010, held online due to the previous earthquake), Panama City (2013), San Juan de Puerto Rico (2016) and Córdoba (Argentina, 2019).
