Panama, Aug 14 (EFE) .- The XIII International Book Fair of Panama will start this Tuesday in the Panamanian capital with Colombia as a guest and the assistance of countries such as Spain, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.

The event will be held until next Sunday under the motto "The City of Books" Discussions and forums on current and controversial issues such as xenophobia, violence against women, social networks and the role of youth.

The forum "Exodus of the 21st century: Refugees, xenophobia and borders "will open discussions this Tuesday with the participation of experts from UNHCR, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the current minister of the Tribunal de Accounts of Uruguay, Ruperto Long, author of the novel "The girl who watched the trains pass."

On Wednesday, the I Forum of Journalism "Social networks in the era of With the intervention of the director of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for the New Iberian-American Journalism (FNPI), Jaime Abello and the director of the digital newspaper El Faro (El Salvador), José Luis Sanz, among others.

In the framework of the Fair, the golden weddings of the novel "Cien años de soledad" by Gabriel García Márquez will be celebrated. Guest of this edition, brings a large troupe of writers including Héctor Abad Faciolince, William Ospina (Rómulo Gallegos Award 2009), Luis Noriega (Prize Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez 2016), Piedad Bonnett and the journalists Darío Arizmendi and Diana Uribe.

In the delegation of Spain, the writer and journalist Juan Bolea, recognized by its four detective novels that have the protagonist to the inspector Martina de Santo and that will participate in "Black Panama", the festival that reunites to the creators of the A crime novel, such as the Nicaraguan Sergio Ramirez.

source: ph.invertalia.net