(note the official banner with the two capital letter
Ss marking the plurals of
las lenguas). Despite its brief history, the conference has not been without its share of bitter disputes. At the first conference in 1997, in Zacatecas, the presentation given by
Gabriel García Márquez, titled
Botella al mar para el dios de las palabras, advocated for
la jubilación de la ortografía. In 2004, in Rosario, at the same time as the third conference was being held, Argentinian
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel inaugurated the 1st
Congreso de laS LenguaS to demand that the memory and identity of the
languages spoken by the indigenous peoples of the Americas be recovered. Moreover, the participation of linguist Nélida Donni de Mirande, a native of Rosario, was cancelled due to her being accused by the
National University of Rosario of having collaborated with the
last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983). Then, in 2016, in San Juan, there was an "unnecessary discussion" surrounding the inclusion in the dictionary of the term
puertorriqueñidad. == See also ==