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Cusco (Peru) was chosen as the American Capital of Culture 2007

Barcelona (Spain) / Cordoba (Argentina) / Guadalajara (Mexico), 04-10-2006

The city of Cusco has been chosen as the American Capital of Culture 2007, according the testimony of Xavier Tudela, International Bureau President of Cultural Capitals and the American Capital Organization of Culture. The next week, Xavier Tudela and Cusco’s mayor, Carlos Valencia Miranda, will sign the designation of this millennium city as cultural concerning of America next year.

Cusco is the capital of the department of Cusco in Peru. It is located in south mountains of Peru, at 3000 meters over sea level. There are three hundred thousand people living there. This is the capital of the Inka Empire and the Historic Capital of Peru, it was declared as the Patrimony of the Humanity by the UNESCO in 1983.

Cordova’s mayor (Argentina), the is the current American Capital of Culture, Luis Alfredo Juez,Has declared knowing the designation of Cusco as the American Capital of Culture 2007, that this represents “a great opportunity”. Juez has said that “when Cordova was declared as the American Capital of Culture, I stated publicly my enthusiasm but also my fears faced the huge challenge that this represents. In first place, we worked an important concept. We have a great opportunity. It doesn’t depend of the destiny or genies, we have to take advantage of it, we have to arouse interest in every Cordova person, it is a magic work of collective construction. It is a wonderful enterprise of making a city taking the culture as a tool.

In this city, a hundred of cities are living, our historical university attracted for decades, brother of Brazil, of Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Haiti, Paraguay and Uruguay that chose its neighborhoods to stay for ever.

In Cordoba Spanish grew up, Italians, Arabians, Turks, Israelis; son of son of immigrants. Cordova has a hundred of cities and when we think about its diversity and tradition of so many colors we can’t mind another cultural politic than a polyphonic concert, attractive and beautiful, original but full of tolerance and with desires of include distinctions”.

Cordova’s mayor finally has declared that “we have done 2000 events in this year, 2006. Some great actions as February Carnivals or the festivity of Mercedes Sosa in March. As the extraordinary theatrical show of the Holly Week, or the celebrations of La Fundacion in July. But also, any of the neighborhoods of the city had no cultural celebration, all of them had it, its recitals, shows and concerts, open air movies. Each neighborhood with its own meaning lived a really great Capitalism. Three months are missing and we have a full cultural plan. We have to crown our title with a great popular celebration and a beautiful monument that in the moment, an special jury has been chosen for it. December will find us in celebrations and we will be grateful of all the tourist that will visit us. They will find us with another reason of proud and I am sure that the satisfaction of having deserved this huge prize”.

As far as, Santiago Baeza, Director of Culture of Guadalajara’s town hall that was the American Capital of Culture 2005, has declared that Cusco, millenary city that was founded by the Marcavalle Culture, many years ago of the conquest of the new world, nowadays represents an important mixed of races between the original cultures of America and the universal culture of the western. As well as the ancient Inkas considered this beautiful city as the “center of the world”, now America consider Cusco as the “Cultural Center of the World”. From Guadalajara, Mexixo, American Capital of Culture 2007, send a warm greeting to our Cusquenian brothers and we pray that this deserved title mark the strengthen of a close relation between Cusco and Guadalajara.

The American Capital of Culture (CAC- abbreviation in Spanish), was created in 1998, it promotes internationally the cultural capital cities and makes new ways of communication with Europe, the continent that owns the cultural capital since 1985. The American Capital Organization of Culture is accredited in the presence of the Organization of American States (OEA – abbreviation in Spanish) and it has the recognition of the European and Latin-American parliaments. The CAC is a initiative which objective is to promote anti-American integration according the cultural field, it would contribute a best knowledge between the nations of the Latin American Continent, always respecting national and regional diversity, and most of all the shared cultural heritage.

The following cities have been designated as American Capitals of Culture: Merida 2000 (Mexico), Iquique 2001 (Chile), Maceio 2002 (Brazil), Curitiba 2003 (Brazil) and Panama City 2003 (Panama), Santiago 2004 (Chile), Guadalajara 2005 (Mexico), Cordoba 2006 (Argentina) and Cusco 2007 (Peru).

As a consequence of the designation of the American Capital of Culture 2007, Cusco will have a very important international spreading, thanks to Discovery Networks Latin America/Iberia and Antena 3 TV Internacional, American Capital of Culture official channels.

Discovery Communications, Inc. (DCI) is a global enterprise, a leader of media based on the real life. DCI has developed its integrity from a original organization. Discovery Channel appears in 1985, and now operates in more than 170 countries and with more than 1.4 thousand of active subscribers. Out of the USA, Discovery Networks International offers 17 TV brands with distribution for 687 millions of subscribers. In Latin America, Spain and Portugal, Discovery Networks Latin America/Iberia (DNLA/I), distributes new brands that reach 78 millions of subscribers in 34 countries, with programs adapted in 5 languages. In Latin America the channels that we have are: Discovery Channel, Discovery Kids, Animal Planet, People+Arts, Discovery Travel & Living, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Civilization, Discovery Science y Discovery Turbo; meanwhile in Spain and Portugal they have: Discovery Channel, People+Arts, Discovery Civilization, Discovery Science y Discovery Turbo. Moreover, DNLA/I also distribute three brands for Spanish-speaking people in USA – Discovery in Spanish, Discovery Kids in Spanish and Discovery Travel & Living. The owners of DCI are four shareholders Holding Company (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB), Cox Communications, Inc., Advance/Newhouse Communications and John S. Hendricks, founder and president of company board of directors.

Antena 3 Internacional is the first Spanish Channel designed for private TV program for Spanish-speaking people. It broadcasts live from Spain for America, 24 hours per day, with the best television production: TV news, entertainment, etc. This channel puts in the hand of American people the best TV programs that are for the Spanish public, and obviously with other programs according the Latin American audience.

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