HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 16 (ACN) The 32nd Havana International Book Fair (FILH) stands as a decolonizing event in Cuba’s cultural panorama, said Juan Rodriguez Cabrera, president of the Cuban Book Institute (ICL by its Spanish acronym), in Havana.
Before Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) and President of the Republic, Rodriguez Cabrera stated at the opening ceremony of the FILH that in Cuba, reading is a priority for the Government and educational and cultural institutions, in terms of the spiritual and intellectual growth of the nation.
Rodriguez Cabrera, who is also president of the Fair’s Organizing Committee, said that more than 400 writers and promoters from 46 countries are in Cuba to participate in the event, which will allow for the development of a massive and popular Fair.
About Brazil, guest of honor at the Fair, he considered that it is a nation with which Cuba maintains strong friendship, cooperation and solidarity ties, in the face of the escalation of the neoliberal right in the world.
The archipelago welcomes its Brazilian brothers and sisters wi