The actress, director and educator Nelda Castillo denounced that due to the “disapproval of the Ministry of Culture” three screenings at El Ciervo Encantado that were scheduled for Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th were cancelled. “We totally disagree with this decision,” he said. the founder of the theater group.
Through Facebookthe exponent of the contemporary Cuban scene expressed her disagreement and considered the position of the Ministry of Culture an “act of censorship without explanations towards artists whose works dignify and shape Cuban culture.”
The censored works are the short fiction The one in chargeby Ricardo Figueredo, and the documentaries Fito’s Havanaby Juan Pin Vilar, and existby Fernando Fraguela and Yulier Rodríguez.
The theater director Yunior Garcia Aguilera, resident in Madrid, expressed his “solidarity” with the censored artists through social networks. “All my rejection to the commissioners of the Ministry of Censorship.” And she also questioned: “Until when? How is it possible that some artists still support that mediocre, abusive and corrupt regime? What the hell did they throw us in the cerelac?”.
The academic also expressed solidarity with the filmmakers Alina Barbara Lopez Hernandez, who ironically affirmed that “given the constant proliferation of acts of censorship in the eyes of public opinion, it is that currently in Cuba the institutions, the universities, the streets and the Government are not ‘of the revolutionaries’ (as affirmed by the official demagogic discourse), but of the counterrevolutionaries”. “Cuba, where 18 Brumaire 2.0 has been lived for a long time”.
“How long? How is it possible that some artists still support that mediocre, abusive and corrupt regime? What the hell did they throw us in the cerelac?”
The Cuban-Salvadoran filmmaker George Dalton He described the decision on his Facebook wall as “arbitrary” and “fascist-like” because the censored audiovisuals are from “artists with significant works that dignify and shape Cuban culture.”
Dalton stressed that on the Island of “world left thought” not only “there is no gasoline, electricity, or future, there is also censorship, exiles, general unhappiness, neglect, daily police abuse with impunity, political prisoners, massive flight of young people, and arrests arbitrary and in bulk”.
He recalled that this censorship is similar to “the Argentina of Fito Páez during the right-wing fascist military dictatorship, the Chile of Pinochet in which they turned off the voice of Victor Jara and filmmakers disappeared and were imprisoned, or Albania, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia , Democratic Germany, the Soviet Union or socialist Poland and also very similar to the Greece of the fascist military or how Daniel Ortega’s fascist hell in Nicaragua is today”.
For his part, the cinematographer Raul Prado, who participated in two of the three censored projects, denounced that these works are only part of a “long list” that they want to disappear. “On this occasion they say that by the Ministry of Culture, in reality the order always comes from the Department of Ideology or State Security, no one else dares to give orders”
Prado considered that this is yet another example of the “decline and mediocreness offered by the Government on the Island, yet another example of totalitarianism and continuity, the one they talk about so much.”
Between the acts of censorship The most recent starring of the regime is the prohibition of the projection in the Festival of the New Latin American Cinema of the film Vincent B.of the young Cuban filmmaker Carlos Diaz Lettucerecently exiled in Spain.
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