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By the end of the nineties, a group of plastic artists and poets, OMNIZONAFRANCA, starts to
invade Alamar’s streets with graffiti, performances, and poetry readings. Then came the
Poesía Sin Fin [Poetry Without End] festival,
which was violently censured in December 2009.

ister of Culture, Abel Prieto, and Fernando Rojas, the Vice Minister, have told the Asociación
Hermanos Saíz that it should not support us because we work for the enemy.
“But, do they offer reasons for why they consider
you a counterrevolutionary group?”

Poesía Sin Fin [Poetry Without End] 2006. Photo: OMNI Archive
A police operation, which included two patrol
Not to us.”4
cars and an ambulance, forced group members to
A year and a half later, a declaration by independleave the workshop (in the Casa de la Cultura), ent production company MatraKa accusing the
where they had worked for over a decade. On this
Ministry of Culture of kidnapping the Rotilla Fesmatter,
poet,
performer
and
OMNItival was posted on the Internet. This alternative
ZONAFRANCA founder, Luis Eligio Meriño,
music event had become the biggest cultural