1 | 28/01/2021 – 1:21 PM (GMT-4)
Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez has doubts the confrontation they organized on January 27 the officials of the Ministry of Culture against artists demonstrating peacefully outside the institution.
“I tried to see the aforementioned video of culture officials attacking artists, but I couldn’t,” he said in a response to his Segunda Cita blog, after a user raised the issue.
“I saw one where the Deputy Minister Fernando Rojas invites them several times to go to the ministry; then something very confusing happens, a shouting match, and there is a guy who says there are police officers with guns (who also don’t be seen), ”adds Silvio.
Next, the troubadour says that two opposition websites ask you to accept cookies to watch the video.
‘If they want to give so much publicity about the alleged injustice, they have to provide facilities. No?’
In another commentary, Rodríguez said, “There may be well-meaning youth out there, but no doubt there is opposition work too. You have to be clear.”
Although Silvio Rodríguez does not acknowledge the reality of January 27, the images are true to the Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso strikes protesters remain outraged to those who see them.
After what happened Wednesday, Cuban officials denied the minister attacked the protesters because, according to the official version of what happened, only Alonso he tried to take a phone pointing at him.
As a result of the various questions the author of Oil painting of a woman with a hat In addition to Wednesday’s events, he said: “It should be an unquestionable right to be able to walk through life without being recorded or filmed; but since the smartphone has been around, these violations have become daily practice. , long before that, special services around the world recorded and / or filmed any person or activity of interest, sometimes – as is said – without the required legal permission required for national security matters ”.
Then he added, “We need to find out how these situations are viewed legally in the rest of the world. And make laws to defend the rights of everyone: those who film and those who do not want to be filmed. Don’t they say the rights end where the rights begin? of the other? Making the rules of that game very clear can save us (ALL) future inconvenience. “
Although Silvio Rodríguez questions the reality of the events, more than one Cuban is outraged by the situation and asks for the resignation of the minister and the deputy minister.
That is the case with Cuban comedian Alexis Valdés“All decent Cuban artists should request the immediate resignation of the Minister and Deputy Minister of Culture. And if not, they all go to the Ministry of Culture to demand it,” he said.
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