Santiago de Cuba, Jan 12 (Prensa Latina) The 18th International Symposium on Social Communication will once again test the ability to bring together experts from these disciplines in Cuba and other nations in pursuit of human understanding, organizers declared today. Leonel Ruiz, director of the Center for Applied Linguistics (CLA), the only one of his specialty outside of Havana, explained these 18 editions became an incentive and commitment to sustain the event against the grain of economic vicissitudes, epidemics and natural phenomena.