MIAMI, Florida (March 5, 2013)—As a contribution to the cultural and historical heritage of new generations and in celebration of its 70 years the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) is to present in Puebla, Mexico, a book titled Oradores Invitados (Guest Speakers), a Spanish-language work that contains 64 outstanding speeches by leading figures in the Americas and Europe, given during the last half century during the organization’s membership meetings.
The IAPA will be holding its Midyear Meeting in the Mexican city on March 8-11. The anthology has rescued from the IAPA archives the words and ideas of leading figures that deal with their suggestive and original points of view in the political, journalistic, literary, technological, financial, etc. fields.
In the book’s 296 pages one finds chosen statesmen, editors, Nobel Prize winners, authors, academics, businessmen, diplomats, historians who were invited to deliver a keynote address to the IAPA membership.
The research includes among the earliest politicians the founder of the Organization of American States and President of Colombia in 1960 Alberto Lleras Camargo; United States President John F. Kennedy, in his speech in Miami in 1963; former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry Kissinger, 1973; Felipe González, former Spanish Prime Minister, etc.
The IAPA is a not-for-profit organization. The book Oradores Invitados will be distributed internationally free of charge as a contribution to the dissemination of thought.
