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Havana, May 23 (RHC)-- The Mexican delegation promises fun shows at the International Caribbean Festival to be held in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba from July 3 to 9, so they are in full preparations.

Oscar Escobedo, artistic director of the programming of the sister nation, to whose celebrations of life and death this 42nd edition of the Fiesta del Fuego will be dedicated, announced that it will be a very complete presentation, with mariachi groups, dancers, lyrical singers, comparsas and choirs.

Under the slogan Life with rhythm and death with flavor, the Mexican representation, which will have its artistic gala on the 6th, will show the authenticity and diversity of its ancestral culture and the rituals related to death, ranging from the aboriginal to the Hispanic footprint.

During a recent visit to the Casa del Caribe, host of the event, by the cultural attaché of that embassy, Santiago Ruy Sánchez de Orellana, the concert Del jolgorio al velorio was also announced, to be given by orchestra conductor Guillermo Villarreal, in charge of the Sinfónica de Oriente (Eastern Symphony Orchestra).

The diplomat emphasized that this traditional celebration has different nuances in each state of that geography, in a wide range that they will try to show on the occasion.

Ruy Sanchez and Escobedo toured places of interest in the city linked to the Festival, among them the Heredia Theater; the local headquarters of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, where the House of Mexico will be located, and the Provincial Council of the Performing Arts.

In the emblematic town of El Cobre, the visitors visited the Sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin of Charity, learned about the Cimarrón Monument and met with members of the Steel Band and the Voces del Milagro choir, iconic groups that are part of the jolgorio.