Díaz-Canel with members of the UNEAC: “The situation in the country will improve but not immediately”

The Cuban rulerMiguel Diaz-Canel He assured this Tuesday in a meeting with members of the official Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) that “the situation in the country will improve but not immediately.”

In the meeting with what he considers “the artistic vanguard of the revolution,” Díaz-Canel celebrated that “in a time like this” the assemblies, instead of being about demands, have been the opposite, “because that vanguard knows how to understand the historical moments that are being experienced and where are the causes of the problems”, according to thereport fromCuban News Agency (ACN).

The top leader of the Cuban regime referred, in the same usual propaganda line, to a campaign "of cultural colonization" that is supported by "a platform of political-ideological subversion and a media war to discredit the revolution."

In this way, he urged the artists of the ruling party to counteract this supposed plan “with depth, with intelligence, with coherence and it has to be part of the everyday debate, because they want to break our identity.”

He also asked artists and intellectuals loyal to the regime to participate in the programs to assist the poorest neighborhoods with which his government attempts to “transform” the marginal and racialized places that came out to protest en masse on July 11, 2021.

Also at the meeting were Inés María Chapman, deputy prime minister; Rogelio Polanco, head of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the PCC; Alpidio Alonso Grau, Minister of Culture; and Luis Morlote Rivas, president of UNEAC.

The note ofACN notes that at the meeting artists and intellectuals who have become spokespersons for official propaganda such asactress Corina Mestre and the journalist Pedro de la Hoz.

Mestre celebrated that, according to her, many young people want to belong to UNEAC; while De la Hoz praised the fact that the ruler takes the trouble to know the opinion of artists close to the regime.

The Cuban government attributes the widespread unrest and discontent of Cubans with their country project to a media war orchestrated by the United States, rather than to its disastrous management and repression of dissent.

At the end of November, the president of Casa de las Américas, Abel Prieto Jiménez, presented to UNEAC the program "Sowing ideas, sowing awareness", whose objective isconfront cultural colonization in the country.

Prieto Jiménez, spokesman for the regime within the ruling intelligentsia, called not to dismiss what he called the current “cultural war,” and to confront the hegemony of capitalism, as well as the mediocrity and “imported trends” that abound in the media.