National Coordinator of Solidarity with Cuba

Panama City, May 28 (RHC) The National Coordinator of Solidarity with Cuba in Panama condemned Sunday the attacks suffered in Spain by our country's musical group Buena Fe.

In a statement, the group rejected the acts of violence, harassment, threats, and insults to musicians Israel Rojas and Yoel Martinez, in a fast-food restaurant in Barcelona and before, and during their presentation at the Galileo Galilei Hall in Madrid.

Given these displays of hate and acts of provocation, the Coordinating Committee highlighted the support received by the Caribbean performers from the José Martí Association of Cubans Residing in Catalonia.

The collective indicated in that text that similarly, several artists and exponents of Cuban sports and culture, residents of the Island, have been victims of actions of this type during their performances in other countries.

Extremist and intolerant groups that advocate violence as a method, try to reverse this way the process of socio-economic and political transformations that Cubans sustain and try to move forward, despite the adverse obstacles imposed by the U.S. blockade, the document adds.

The Coordinating Committee stated that the failed policy of attacks on the Revolution that triumphed in 1959 has not been able to bend the will and courage of the Cuban people,

Given the experience of Buena Fe in Spain and the increasing aggressions of imperialism and its subjects against the Cuban people and other nations of the region, the Coordinating Committee called for a redoubling of its commitment to support them in their resistance.

In their most recent tour in Spain, where they were presenting their album Morada, the Buena Fe duo was attacked and threatened by reactionary sectors of the island's emigration.

After the events in Cuba, President Miguel Díaz Canel, the Music section of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, other institutions, and the people expressed their support for Buena Fe, a victim of mistreatment that escalated to physical violence and went beyond all limits.

They also rejected the pressures on the public and local programmers in the Iberian nation that, sometimes without having great economic resources, maintain the will and commitment to promote Cuban music abroad. (Source: Prensa Latina).