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STATEMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL OF HAVANA
We, the poets that organized the International Poetry Festival of Havana, can not stay silent after learning about the declaration of the so called “ Platform of Spanish nationals for the Democratization of Cuba”.
Cuba has built its own legitimate democracy, backed up by the vast majority of its people.
Together with well known spokepersons of the anti-Cuban campaign, honest people, perhaps without the necessary information and knowledge, influenced by the “fierce and painful” mass media campaign against Cuba, are accusing us, and by doing so, assume a posture that attempts to harm the sovereignty of our country, and provides support to the ethernal enemies of the island, that have not ceased, for the past 200 years, cuddling the anexionist and colonial dream.
They pretend to keep Cuba tied to the stand of the accused.
The words democracy, liberty and human rights have been sequestered. They are using empty arguments with the purpose of imposing, into the first headlines, the vision of our country that is wanted to be sold.
Cuba is not only a name under the pointing accusing finger. Cuba is a culture, an ethics, a history, a powerful identity, a mystics born from poetry and imagination.
This that a few pretend to attack us, is not the Spain that we have always loved and admired: The Spain of Juan Ramon Jimenez, of Antonio Machado and Leon Felige; the Spain of Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafeal Alberti and Miguel Hernandez; of Maria Teresa Leon and Maria Zambrano; of Pablo Casals and Pablo Picasso; the Spain of contemporary intellecuals and artists always fraternal; of an inexhaustible number of friends who accompany us on a day to day basis with their solidarity.
The Spain that left us the heritage of a powerful culture cannot judge or condemn us for defending our own nation of culture, beauty and justice.
Presidency of the Festival
Aitana Alberti Miguel Barnet Víctor Casaus Pablo Armando Fernández Eusebio Leal Waldo Leyva César López Virgilio López Lemus Omar Felipe Mauri Edel Morales Nancy Morejón Carilda Oliver Labra Alex Pausides Juan Ramón de la Portilla
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