28/05/2008
Cambridge University
Simon Bolivar Professorship continues to spread knowledge about Latin America

During the most recent meeting of the advisory committee of Simon Bolivar Professorship at the University of Cambridge, the Ambassador of the Venezuela in the United Kingdom, Samuel Moncada, participated actively as one of its members.

This prestigious Professorship specialized in Latin American Studies has formed part of the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge since 1968. It was established thanks to financial resources contributed by Venezuela, with the aim of financing a years worth of investigations by well-respected intellectuals and academics from Latin America as guest professors at the University of Cambridge.

At the end of the advisory committee meeting, Ambassador Moncada took the opportunity to meet with Doctor José Luis Lanata, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires and who holds the title of Professor Simon Bolivar this academic year. Together with Doctor Lanata, Ambassador Moncada was given a tour of the Anthropology Department of Cambridge University, where the anthropologist carries out extensive investigative studies about well-known works regarding the settlement of the American continent and specifically of Patagonia in Argentina.

Our country continues like this, its compromise in investing in academia with the aim of learning more about the cultural and scientific values of Venezuela and of Latin America for the world.