We have from the administration the duty to be coherent, there is no cultural policy for the state sector and another for the private, in both sectors must be promoted, defend, give space to those who make true art, said the president.
When closing the IX Congress of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac), in the Palace of Conventions of this capital, the head of State insisted on valuing culture as a fundamental link in the productive chains that interest to promote.
Díaz-Canel advised to promote an intense cultural activity in all the cities and tourist areas that, while enriching the cultural life of the town, attract and conquer its visitors.
You have to be authentic and stop selling canned shows, pseudo-culture products that respond more to profitability than pride in showing who you really are, he said.
Cuba is a cultural power and today tourism, being as it is, an economic activity that contributes daily to the budget, still pays much less than it could, he criticized.
According to the statesman, the art school system has an income account for the export of services insufficiently exploited in the generation of courses in areas of artistic education where modalities and prices should be established consistent with the high level of the Cuban academy.
In this same line of thought, the Uneac corresponds to be a kind of electron mobilizer of forces and actions for the international projection of our cultural industries, he reflected.
In addition, the president asked not to forget that when all the doors were closed for Cuba, for their daring pretension of sovereignty and freedom, even in the American empire at least windows were opened where music, visual arts, ballet, dance, theater and other cultural events.
The bridges that Cuban culture has raised, supported by faithful friends in so many years of little or no relationship between Cuba and the United States, has allowed us to sustain an exchange between our peoples of such strength that the current US administration has proposed to close it definitively.
According to the president, also from Europe, Asia and Africa, intellectuals and artists have emerged as cultural embassies, have opened doors and favored understandings that could be more difficult and even impossible without them.
There is a lot to work in this direction and you have the talent, strength and knowledge to make it grow, providing the country with essential resources for its development, said Díaz-Canel
