{"id":233761,"date":"2021-01-28T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=233761"},"modified":"2021-01-28T12:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:31:19","slug":"new-protest-at-headquarters-of-ministry-of-culture-in-havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/new-protest-at-headquarters-of-ministry-of-culture-in-havana\/","title":{"rendered":"New protest at headquarters of Ministry of Culture in Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around noon on January 27, some 20 people gathered in front of the Cuban Ministry of Culture (MINCULT). Exactly two months after the <\/span>events of 27N<\/span><\/a>, the protesters who came to the headquarters this Wednesday demanded an institutional response to the arrest of three Cuban artists in the morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to <\/span>statements to the Periodismo de Barrio site<\/span><\/a>, today some artists and intellectuals linked to 27N had planned \u201ca very simple gesture, waiting for the anniversary of the birth of Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed and commemorating the two months of 27N, to go somewhere where there was a sculpture of Mart\u00ed and have a poetry reading. Today we woke up and Tania Bruguera and Katherine Bisquet were under surveillance,\u201d said visual artist Camila Lob\u00f3n, present there. According to her, she herself witnessed the arrest of Camila Acosta and she was detained by police officers, who tried to take her cell phone from her. A State Security officer let her go after \u201ctalking to me for about half an hour,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

For today, three \u201cspokespersons\u201d: curator Solveig Font, playwright Yunior Garc\u00eda and Camila Lob\u00f3n herself, had a meeting scheduled with Deputy Minister Fernando Rojas at the MINCULT headquarters, after several exchanges between the institution and some participants in the 27N, according to a <\/span>statement posted<\/span><\/a> on Facebook page 27N.<\/span><\/p>\n

Several of those who were participating in the tribute to Mart\u00ed decided to go to the MINCULT headquarters to demand that the people who had been detained be released. As could be seen in the <\/span>direct<\/span><\/a> broadcast of Periodismo de Barrio<\/em>, Deputy Minister Fernando Rojas invited them several times to enter the Ministry\u2019s headquarters and talk about this situation, which he said he would \u201ctake care of immediately,\u201d but those gathered there decided to remain outside until they had an answer.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason given by Fernando Rojas was that there should be no crowds with the epidemiological situation on the island, but the attendees decided to remain outside the institution and affirmed that they would keep their distance when doing so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Independent Cuban media <\/span>denounced<\/span><\/a> on social networks the aggression suffered by a journalist from <\/span>Diario de Cuba<\/span><\/i> by Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso, who attacked reporter <\/span>Mauricio Mendoza<\/span><\/a> to take away his cell phone while he was filming outside the headquarters, <\/span>as shown<\/span><\/a> by the published images. After that, the broadcat was abruptly interrupted.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few minutes later, the Cuban deputy minister of culture declared on Twitter that he had asked those gathered outside the Ministry\u2019s headquarters to come in to talk and, instead, \u201cthey refused and provoked. And more than that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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A golpes contra los muchachos que est\u00e1n en el Mincult el esbirro de la dictadura @fernandorojas_6<\/a>
Participa de la represi\u00f3n, justo el d\u00eda de hoy!https:\/\/t.co\/7QGIS7t1FK<\/a> #NoticiaEnDesarrollo<\/a> #DICTADURA<\/a> #Cuba<\/a><\/p>\n

— Snape (@Snape1515) January 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n