by Edu Ascanio Leave
Raul Castro warned in a speech to intellectuals and artists from Cuba about a threat in the cultural field "subversive projects" and a "global wave of colonization , " however took the opportunity to make clear their confidence in the union that can deal smooth the course challenge. According to media reviews of the pro regime.
Raul Castro
The statement read last night as part of the celebration for the 55 years of the official National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba congratulates an institution "that was born in a decisive stage of the Cuban Revolution" and remained "the service culture, considered by Fidel (Castro) 'shield and sword of the nation' '.
"Today we are doubly threatened in the field of culture. By subversive projects that aim to divide and global wave of colonization UNEAC this will continue facing with courage, revolutionary commitment and understanding these complex challenges , " read the president of the institution, Miguel Barnet.
Castro recalls in the text - widespread in state newspapers Granma and Juventud rebellious the "Words to Intellectuals" from his brother Fidel Castro in 1961, among other events that preceded the creation of the UNEAC, and named its first president , the "big" Nicolas Guillén, National Poet of the island.
The organization, according to the Cuban dictator, "convened unitary spirit to the artistic vanguard and joined the construction of Marti 'trenches of ideas . '"
"Get there on this day my congratulations to the founders and the generations that have given continuity to the work begun in August 1961 , " concludes the message, which is in the pro- government daily on the signing of Raul Castro.
In the last dates and then restore relations with the United States. In July last year, Cuba has become a destination tendency among artists and intellectuals of all kinds, who have seen in the culture a way to "thaw".
Havana has been the scene for filming of series and movies including "House of Lies" and the latest installments of the series offilms "Fast and Furious" and "Transformers" as well as celebrities like Katy Perry, Rihanna and Madonna have walked the streets of the former "forbidden island".
In a display ever seen on the island, The Rolling Stones gave a free concert last March in Havana, an unimaginable event in past decades.
April was not far behind, important figures in all fields of art and intellectuality United States joined a group of more than 50 delegates and guests of the Presidential Committee on the Arts and Humanities, who arrived in the Cuban capital supported by the House white looking to strengthen cultural conventions.
Then in May, the couturier Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel led a milestone in the history of the island by concentrating celebrities and supermodels on one haute couture of the prestigious French fashion house, who first landed in Latin America with the " Cruise collection ".
However, in July the State Council of Cuba, at the request of Raul Castro, dismissed the hitherto Culture Minister Julian Gonzalez, who was replaced momentarily by Abel Prieto, who has assumed the responsibility for 15 years , until 2012.
The dismissal spread released in a simple official note published in the official media, which was not mentioned, as is usual in everything they do Castro, the reasons for the dismissal.
With cubanet.org information.
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