Cartagena de Indias, September 9, 2011.

Receive warm greetings from Cartagena de Indias,
Today last day of the conference in honor of Don Blas de Lezo. The morning began with a series of talks that ended at 12:30 noon. Among the speakers were: Jose Manuel Restrepo, Timothée de Saint-Albin, Paul Victoria Wilches, Javier Gómez de Olea and Bustinza, Leon Trujillo Velez and Alfonso Cabrera Cruz.

Then at 4 pm attendees gathered in the Plaza de los Coches, where he placed a plaque on the counter of the wall (or face clock tower of the bridge).

Then at 5 o'clock in the afternoon all participants went to the monument of Don Blas de Lezo located at the foot of the fortress of San Felipe de Barajas, there was a wreath in charge of naval and civilian authorities, with the accompaniment of consul of the embassy of Spain in Colombia.

The flower delivery was accompanied with the interpretation of the respective national anthems of the Republic of Colombia and Spain.
This culminated in the ocean acts as a tribute to Don Blas de Lezo Basque and Olavarrieta.

Sincerely,

Luis Carlos Vergara Lorduy

Thank you very much to Luis Carlos Lorduy Vergara for his chronicle of the days and the pictures he made. Remember that Luis Carlos keeps track of the burial of the remains of Blas de Lezo.

Cartagena de Indias, September 7, 2011.

Receive warm greetings from these latitudes.
At 11 hours of the morning mass was observed in honor of the Basque sailor Don Blas de Lezo and Olavarrieta, officiated at the Cathedral of Cartagena by Archbishop Bishop Jorge Enrique Jiménez Carvajal. Among those attending were the descendants of the family of Don Blas de Lezo, and members of the Academy of the History of Cartagena, who in the person of its Honorary President Dr. Arturo Figueroa Matson made a statement at the end of the mass. Likewise present was a delegation of officers from the Naval School Cadettes.

For tomorrow are initiated conference scheduled from 9am.

Sincerely,

Luis Carlos Vergara Lorduy

I reproduce literally the press release of these days:

To mark the 270 anniversary of the famous and heroic defense of Cartagena de Indias by Don Blas de Lezo and within the events organized to mark the Bicentennial of Independence Academy of the History of Cartagena and the Royal Academy Matritense of Heraldry and Genealogy, sponsored and backbone of the cultural office of the Embassy of Spain in Bogotá, organized a Conference in Honor of the aforementioned Don Blas de Lezo and Olavarrieta, Lieutenant General of the Royal Spanish Navy and defense of Cartagena, in this city of 7 to 9 September next.
The events begin with a solemn Mass, the same day 7, the anniversary of the death of Don Blas, officiated by the Rt. Archbishop of Cartagena, Monsignor Enrique Jimenez Carvajal, and will continue with two intense days of lectures to be delivered by top experts in many different aspects of that defense and its maximum protagonist Thus, Horacio Trujillo Velez Don Leon (President Academy of the History of Cartagena) will deliver the keynote address at the Naval Museum of the Caribbean on day 8 at 9 am. In the same Naval Museum will give a lecture Vice Admiral Guillermo Uribe Pelaez. Later, in the Conference Room of the Convent of Santo Domingo, headquarters of the Spanish Cooperation Agency, other conferences will take decisions that will be offered by architect Don Ricardo Zabateta by Colonel Marines of the Spanish Armada Miguel Aragon Fontenla (Member of the Institute of Naval History and Culture of Spain), by historian Rodolfo Segovia, Jose Manuel Restrepo (Director of the Archive Restrepo), by the French antiquarian Bogota gift Timothée de Saint-Albin, the historian and former senator Pablo Victoria (biographer of Don Blas de Lezo), by the biographer and descendant of the famous Spanish sailor Don Ramiro Ribas Narvaez and the Spanish genealogist Javier Gomez de Olea and Bustinza.

On day 9 there will be a wreath at the monument of Don Blas de Lezo near the Castle of San Felipe de Barajas and you will find a plaque on the walls of Cartagena. On day 8 a group of descendants of the famous ocean will be presenting a portrait of him at the Naval Academy in Cartagena, particularly in the presence of Colombian naval authorities and diplomatic Spanish.

Here I leave a good story about the life of Blas de Lezo by Professor Vladimir Acosta. The story FOUND Arts program is well extracted, focusing on who was Blas de Lezo and the forces that fought in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias.

Alber Bravo! I have not yet read the novel but I'm impressed by your honesty and courage you show in your words in writing this book.

Ladies and gentlemen we have a new play about Blas de Lezo. He left a month ago and you can read the first chapter online . This is a 320-page historical novel published by Publishers Inedita the price of 18'50 €. The action focuses on the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, 1941, a crucial and a book as the author says must read "to remind Lezo he deserves it."