speech Words to the Intellectuals( 1961). Several figures of the arts raised and showed then their discontent with the management of culture and the ways of doing arts under influences contrary to their beliefs. Nobody remembers how much was done to mute the plastic artists that started to show their concerns. After so many years of continuous cultural censorship, very few artists are chosen to get benefits or programs which, in some ways, allow their criticism of the socialist system. Others are committed to the government and provide a significant amount of money from abroad, but the people are punished any way. No one can deny the quality of our artists and their works, but... Why does it depend on the judgment of the political leadership? Why does everything have to respond to the facade that the regime wants to show the world, if cultural organizations such as the Hermanos Saíz Association( AHS) dare to defend the artists? Why some artists strive to protect the state budget and abstain from delivering the cultural performance that any citizen deserves anywhere in the country? Why one of the most prestigious film directors, Juan Carlos Cremata, is questioned, repressed and criticized only because he recreated a truth that nobody can hide anymore? Why does it become more difficult every year to deliver the artist culture to the people, due to reductions in the state budget, if the artists are increasingly paying taxes to the State? Why some of them are branded as counter-revolutionary and the bureaucracy makes all efforts to remove them from the cultural scene, if they are only artists who insist in making revolutionary changes from the progressive perspective of improving the quality of live the arts and through different initiatives beyond the official discourse? Why the concept " human rights " remains the government’ s G Spot and its contents is manipulated against the pro-democratic civil society? We would spend a lot of time trying to answer these questions, which are not comfortable for those who have spent a lifetime doing everything possible in order to keep our people alienated, away from the paths opened by technology, foreign travel, socialization with foreign visitors. They even prevent people from learning about the universal declaration and international covenants on human rights, which are also culture. The State has the duty to guarantee these rights and fulfill its obligations, but bans, detentions and violations of human dignity persist, without recognizing once and for all that such rights are not specific of any State, culture or country, but inherent to everyone in the world. A daily complaint of many artists is the abuse of power by managers and administrative officials, even in the payments. Thus, there is widespread lack of interest in works that seek to politicize culture and give a good external image of Cuban communism. Holguin has echoed the judgment of the president of the AHS provincial chapter, Yunior García, on such unjustifiable situations. He dared to judge former dictator Fidel Castro as well as Luis Antonio Torres, First Secretary of the Communist Party in the province. This move tells us that the wall of silence is increasingly thinner. We just have to find a way to exercise the right to a social and cultural discourse in order to reach all understandable, consistent and encourag-
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