Caribbean Festival in Cuba, in Santiago de Cuba, recognizes culture of more than 20 countries

Havana, April 9 (RHC) The International Caribbean Festival, based in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, has recognized the culture of more than 20 countries in that region and Latin America, as part of the preparations for the 42nd edition.

Some of these nations received the dedication on more than one occasion, as happened with Brazil, Haiti, Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. In addition, the festival was dedicated to José Martí and the balance of the world.

In the long list of the homage of the event exalting Caribbean and Latin American spirituality, there are also the 33 years of the assault on the Moncada Barracks, carried out by Fidel Castro and young revolutionaries on July 26, 1953, and the centenary of the abolition of the slavery.

The first tribute of the jubilee corresponded, in 1984, to the island of Grenada and its leader, Maurice Bishop, thus demonstrating his solidarity and brotherly vocation, expressed a year later in the people of Haiti as a guest of honor, who returned in in 2004 with the motivation of the bicentennial of its independence.

Other themes of the International Caribbean Festival, also known as Fire Festival, were the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and Suriname, the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, the French-speaking, Anglophone, Colombian and Mexican Caribbean, Caricom, the Hispanic footprint, the diaspora, the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, and the island of Curaçao.

A review of this altruistic gesture of the Festival has in the 2009 edition, which would be dedicated to the Garifuna culture and would have the presence of the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, the sad memory of the coup that frustrated the progressive government in that Central American nation.

With the outbreak of Covid-19, in 2020 a chapter was held to pay tribute to the meeting itself and in 2021 Belize received the reverence, which in 2022 fell to the 40th anniversary of Casa del Caribe, the cultural institution that sponsors it.  (Source: Prensa Latina)