Young artists protest in front of the doors of the Ministry of Culture, in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. Dozens of Cuban artists demonstrated against the police evicting a group who participated in a hunger strike.
About 20 artists had gathered Friday and the crowd grew to 200 by late night, when Vice Minister Fernando Rojas and the directors of several associations affiliated with the governing Communist Party met with delegates of the demonstrators until after midnight. But those who turned up at Friday’s demonstraton included people with a long history working in the government-run culture sector, including actor Jorge Perugurría, a star of the film “Strawberry and Chocolate,” director Fernando Pérez, playwright Yunior García and feminist activist Dianelys Alfonso.
“It is time for dialogue and I think it is important for you young peopleto be heard, and we are going to work for that,” Perugurría said before entering to meet with the authorities.
TimothyS Pompous airheads
Wow, you promise that you might or maybe will consider thinking about letting people expressing their art. How generous of them! 😕
this issue arose out of the USA aggression that led to a need to adopt a more militarized response to constant attacks from the world's biggest superpower. 70 years later there is a rediscovery of confidence. May the people always remember that it is socialism that has saved them
Free Medicare, higher literacy rate, higher education rate, etc. Mind you , that’s the rate with most First world countries...except USA.
Art feeds the soul...
This is good news.
In the US they'd have got gassed, beaten and arrested then indefinitely detained until a lawyer can get them out on bail.
On the other hand, the governments of traditional democracies have become deaf to citizens who make their demands at demonstrations.
Isn't it funny that Cubans have free healthcare and you don't?
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Good for them! Now it would be cool if Cuban immigrants would stop voting for Trump and his henchmen.
Gulag at 11.
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