Havana, July 5 (RHC)-- The President of Casa de las Americas, Abel Prieto, warned this Sunday about the intention of U.S. President Donald Trump to focus on a cultural war.

"Trump prefers to focus on another war -- a cultural one.  In his speech at Mount Rushmore, he portrayed the U.S. as a country under assault by a 'new extreme leftwing fascism', of 'bad, evil people' whose goal is 'the end of America,'" the former Cuban Minister of Culture commented on his Twitter profile.

The president of the United States took advantage of the celebration of the national holiday of July 4th to give a speech in which he exacerbated the political divisions to the maximum and promised a forceful response against the "new far left fascism" which, according to him, is spreading through "schools, newsrooms and even the offices of corporate boards."

In Trump's view, there is a supposed 'cultural revolution of the left designed to overthrow the American revolution' and its protagonists are 'bad, evil people' who seek not a better America, but 'the end of America.'

Such claims occurred on Mount Rushmore, before an estimated audience of 7,500 people, without any social distance being requested, nor the use of face masks, despite the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, a situation that the president completely ignored.

Casa de las Américas recently commemorated the 61st anniversary of its foundation and, in connection with the celebration, Prieto spoke with Prensa Latina about the essential contribution of that institution, in his opinion, to keep the great Latin American nation alive from the spiritual and cultural point of view, above the different political circumstances.

Also a few days ago, Casa de las Americas urged all people of goodwill to raise their voices to stop the fascist advance and demand the end of racism in the United States and the whole planet.

"The brutal murder of George Floyd and the violent deaths of other African-Americans, inflicted in the midst of the largest protests in over half a century, show that racism in the U.S. functions like a deadly machine, totally out of control," the organization denounced in a statement at the time.

Casa de las Americas said that the U.S. is accustomed to dominating by force and not being accountable for it.  The system is incapable of controlling its primitive instincts, which have been exacerbated since the arrival of Donald Trump as president of the country.

The statement concludes with a call for all good people to raise their voices to stop the fascist advance, to demand an end to racism, oppression and social exclusion, and to demand equality and justice for all victims of discrimination and hatred in the United States and around the world, now and forever.