- Photos: Panchito Gonzalez
Havana, January 13 (Prensa Latina) Music, dance and décimas marked today in the Cuban capital a meeting between young creators, to sing of peace and sovereignty, and to show solidarity with Venezuela after the US military aggression of January 3.
From La Pérgola, in the Cuba Pavilion, members of the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) and students from the National School of Art and the University of the Arts (ISA) made clear their rejection of the events that are shaking the world today and threatening the sovereignty of the Bolivarian nation.
“We have gathered to express our stance against all interference, threats, and anything that poses a danger to life and the well-being of our people,” the national president of the AHS, Yasel Toledo, told the press.
He considered that if anything has defined the Cuban people throughout history, it is that ability to maintain beauty, even in the most complex moments.
“It is our way of raising awareness and showing what our position is: against all interference and threats, in favor of peace and the right to sovereignty of Cuba, Venezuela and the peoples of the world,” he said.
The Association has been closely monitoring the situation, he said, and at the same time has expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and with Cuban families for the loss of loved ones.
I like to imagine the people of Cuba as one big family, and that’s something we’ve felt, he added.
He also discussed the AHS’s relationships with young creators from other regions of the world and highlighted the frequent participation of Venezuelan artists in several of the events they promote.
Similarly, he highlighted the rapid response of young Cuban creators and artists to the call to raise their voices in defense of Venezuela.
Cuba has a unique characteristic that fills us with pride, and that is the strong convergence between the intellectual vanguard and the political vanguard, he emphasized.
In his opinion, “in the artistic soul of the Cuban nation there also beats a very strong patriotic heart, which makes us be in spaces like this, ready to defend the country.”
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