Havana, January 29 (RHC-PL) -- Uruguayan Senator and former President Jose Mujica, called on the progressive and leftist people of the world to fight for hope and cultivate the confidence of the peoples.

Addressing a conference here in Havana on the importance of culture in socio-economic development, Mujica said that the left-wing must be a bearer of the freedom culture.

The former president of Uruguay lamented that despite their goals, many socialists and progressives experiences have failed to establish a liberating economy, and instead established one that replicated cultural additions of capitalism.

However, the current senator explained that there are not only cultures of subjugation. 'There are also the cultures of freedom and those are the ones that the progressive parties and their members should promote, in order to allow a glimpse of hope and to cultivate the confidence of the people'.