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Let us place virtue above mean interests.Magnanimity above human miseries.Let’s place Cuba above our heads so thatour ideas don’t exclude us. Let’s placeCuba also above our hearts so that ourfeelings and resentments don’t separateus. And let’s place Cuba above our willfulprojections so that we can learn to buildthe national space where there may beroom for all the good and diverseprojects of our serene and magnanimouswills.Cuba deserves it and so do we, itssovereign children, here and there, onesand the others can offer that to Cuba.Pinar del Río, January 28 th 2009.Ediciones ConvivenciaPinar del Río. 201237
CULTURE AND POLITICS IN CUBAEditorial 9. May-Jun-2009. Convivencia Magazine. www.convivenciacuba.esThe first four months of 2009 have passedwith an unstoppable marathon of culturalevents and political visits. It looks as thoughCuba is openning itself up to the world ofpresidents and artists from a real mix ofdifferent cultures, nationalities, politicalcolors and economical interests. All of themtrying to come, to arrive, to be, not only nowbut thinking about the mid and long termfuture. This process is good in itself: theopenning up, the exchange, the cooperationand the search for development and not onlyof the potential markets. This makes thepeoples grow.Some don’t see any relationship between thevisit paid by a president or a minister andevents such as the Film Festival or theHavana Biennal or a Theater Festival. Theydescribe the visits as “political events” andthe other developments as “cultural events”.Some even don’t wish to link the “political”thing with the “cultural” thing. Others cannotprevent themselves from manipulating bothor from capitalizing both in an aberrant way.We believe, however, that something ishappening in Cuba before our eyes. But weseem to be accustomed to closing our eyesso we can’t see reality or so we can’t befrightened or so we can’t be committed toreality. That’s why, observing what hashappened during this dizzy first four-monthperiod of the year we wish to try to approachone of the many and possible articulationsand holistic perspectives of this reality. Sinceit’s only one of the diverse interpretations,we present it hoping that it may give rise to adebate beyond the events and the apparentoccurrences.To promote culture is the most spiritual way ofpromoting politics. Both ways lead us to thecommon good of society.There are countries where the concepts and thereality are divorced. There is a falsecontradiction between the political thing, thecultural thing and the social thing. Wheneverthere is searing anger between culture andpolitics; whenever there is sectarian exclusionand mutual mistrust, instead of a public debate,free and responsible, there is something wrongin that country. We can’t say that it is a“normal” country.To manipulate the cultural expresions in favorof a sole ideology, whatever its sign or colormay be, without opening up to the loyal andrespectful dialogue with the other ideologies, isone of the most subtle ways of oppressing. Butto erase, to throw out, to condemn, to ignore orsupress cultural expressions as well as todiscredit them and call them anti-culturalsimply because they do not coincide with ourpoint of view, or even worse, because they donot coincide with an aberration that has beencalled: official cultural policy, then somethingvery regrettable is happening. Some have calledit cultural genocide if we are talking about asistematic, structural and massive behavior witha mass-scale and depersonalzing effect.The global conscience has not made theconcept of cultural genocide very conscious: formay persons there is alarm and commitmentEdiciones ConvivenciaPinar del Río. 201238
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WHAT COMES AFTER THE POPE’S VISIT
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the search for it always implies an
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CUBA DOES HAVE THOUGHT, PROJECTSAND
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everlasting projects shall be never
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prisoners of conscience. This group
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one ideology. To use persons to see
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perspective given by any statesman
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we respect everybody, we live weavi
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Relación de artistas cubanos y las
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