Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez headed the inaugural of the “Festival of Ideas, Retrospective and Perspective on the Dominican Political Thought” in the National Palace Monday, organized by the Presidency’s Press Office and other institutions.

Press director Rafael Núñez said the world’s crisis on ethics, morals and ideas makes it imperative to raise the main values and recognize the best people to empower them for the great national task of materializing the “Project of Nation.”

He said for some time humanity has been immersed in a deep crisis at all levels, a situation he said is brutally expressed in the family and other scopes of society. “That reality takes to us to reflect on the need, during these turbulent global crises at all levels with threats of imposing rancid protectionisms, to raise our best values, which are ours, to discover our best men to empower them in the great national task for the Project of Nation.”

The Festival of Ideas will be carried out with the support of seven universities, the foundation FUNGLODE and the Nation Archives, with eight panels to spur a wide ranging debate on the country’s outstanding thinkers and historians.