Havana, May 30 (Prensa Latina) “Humor cannot be blocked” is the title of the exhibition held at the International Press Center in Havana, against the United States’ economic, financial, and commercial blockade policy toward Cuba.
Participating in the exhibition are artists Arístides Hernández, Ismael Lema, Adán Iglesias, Enrique Lacoste, José Luis López, Osvaldo Gutiérrez, Alfredo Martirena, and José Alberto Rodríguez.
At the inauguration, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío emphasized that this is an artistic and humorous expression, a manifestation of the Cuban people’s rejection of U.S. aggression for more than six decades.
“It’s not something new in our history. It’s been a tradition in our country, during the revolutionary process, to express in multiple ways, including through graphic humor, the population’s rejection of such a persistent and ruthless war against the Cuban people.
He stressed that the United States’ aggression against Cuba “is ruthless; it is not a military aggression, but it is destructive, as it has been for more than 60 years against the entire Cuban people.
He added that if there were any doubt, it would suffice to look at the recent statements, from last week, by the Secretary of State (Marcos Rubio), which leave no room for doubt, that in the problems between Cuba and the United States, there is one country that is the aggressor, which is the United States, and there is another country that is the victim of US aggression.
“Our people have been able, by their nature, their culture, their idiosyncrasy, to use humor to express even the strongest repudiations, the most resolute rejections, against imperialism, and these cartoons are an expression of that.
Cossío stated that the Cuban people, “stoic as they are, optimistic as they are, have been able to show humor even in the most dramatic moments, and in the moments when the most heroic acts are carried out, so it should not be surprising that even in the face of the economic war against Cuba, they express themselves in this way, in graphic expressions by our artists.”
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