HAVANA, Cuba, Mar 27 (ACN) “Culture and its creators are entrusted with the mission of raising the Cuban people’s spirits despite our current difficult socioeconomic conditions,” Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said at the annual meeting of the Ministry of Culture (MINCULT), also attended by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz.
“In circumstances marked by economic strangulation and smear campaigns, art’s avant-garde has to rise to the occasion. (…) All this pressure coming from the enemy of the North translates into a marked cultural colonization and attempts to break the essence and roots of the nation.
Díaz-Canel remarked that culture plays a cross-sectional role in the