On June 26 in Beijing, Héctor Villagrán Cepeda, former minister of Transport and Public Works of #Ecuador and a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, delivered a keynote speech during a seminar called Beijing Language and Culture University: Forge Civilizational Dialogue to Break Centuries of Solitude, which was part of the 2026 Think Tank Forum on National Governance in Developing Countries. Drawing on the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and Simón Bolívar's century-old vis