In the welcoming words for the event, Jose Marti Studies Center director Ana Sanchez Collazo, talked about the wide spectrum of the work of Jose Marti in his short but fruitful literary life.

"We wanted to remind Martí, the writer, the one from all the times since his style is wise, modern, current, and since his time, he has managed to become one of the best artists of the Spanish language," Sanchez Collazo said.

"His writing has a great personal and human value and covered almost all literary genres imaginable, from poetry, prose, essays, theatre, storytelling and also left us an outstanding journalism, always at the service of the truth," she added.

Collazo Sanchez also announced that over 300 unpublished works of the Cuban National Hero will appear in the v 25th and 26th volumes of his complete works, relevant news for scholars and followers of the literature of José Julián Martí Pérez (1853-1895).

The opening ceremony was in charge of Dr. Marlen Dominguez Hernandez, from the University of Havana, who analyzed the linguistic peculiarities of the work of Jose Marti in the times he had to live.

The Colloqium will be dedicated to the 145th anniversary of Marti's theater play "Abdala" and will extend up to next Friday, with the participation of Cuban delegates, besides others from Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, US, Venezuela, Chile and others.

On the three days the Colloqium will last, a vast collection of the works of Jose Marti will be on sale for the audience.