Madrid Spain.- Cuban historian and professor Ivette García González publicly announced her resignation from the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) due to the “Message of Cuban educators, journalists, writers, artists, and scientists to their colleagues from other countries,” released by official media that adds up the number of dozens of Cuban artists and intellectuals who are members of the UNEAC who deny the repression on the island.
“Yesterday I learned that I am still on the list of members of the UNEAC Writers Association, so I wake up ratifying my resignation,” García González said through Facebook.
In her publication, the historian declared that for a long time she considered that the UNEAC could be an associative space from which intellectuals went beyond sectoral interests and could influence the course of events and the destinies of Cuba.
“From the discussions, because they did not allow us to debate and contribute to the constitutional project in 2018 and the twist that came shortly after, when we already had to accept censorship, wait and discuss approval even of the word to be used in an event, or the speaker to invite, you could see what has happened to assert that we are the ´transmission pulley´ of the Party/Government/State and we must accept instrumentalization”, declared González, who for years chaired the Historical Literature Section and Social of the UNEAC.
Just as he specified that since then to date “everything has gotten worse.”
“Olympically, the suffering people of which we are a part have been ignored, and within this even intellectual colleagues and artists who have been harassed to the point of exhaustion. And now to top it off, they issue a new statement to the world denying the repression of the Government in our country and therefore confirming their complicity with injustice. It is the last straw”, he denounced.
The official statement has been seen as an attempt by the island’s authorities to show an image of unity after the popular protests in Cuba.
After the publication of this document, more than a hundred Cuban artists, intellectuals and activists rejected the pronouncements of the officialdom.
Among them the singer-songwriter Peter Louis Ferrer who, upon resigning from the UNEAC last week, expressed: “I have spent many years professing a discipline (that does not practice proselytism) whose worldview advises me not to give up my will to claim, to groups, parties, churches, documents… that may represent or supplant my personal expression and identity. Without this meaning devaluing those who do it: every human being is a universe”.
“The only entity recognized by this discipline is Humanity. As a human person I can express my opinion, approve or condemn what seems praiseworthy or detestable on planet Earth. It is what I always do”, said Ferrer before concluding that, for these reasons, he resigned from the UNEAC.
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