| 27/12/2020 – 15:34 (GMT-4)
Playwright Yunior García Aguilar launched a peaceful campaign on December 27 that invites people to post photos on their social networks where they perform the action described by the electronic tag: “I’m sitting in the neighborhood Contingues.”
García Aguilar inaugurated the campaign from his Twitter account, in which he posted a photo of himself doing the peaceful action accompanied by the following text: “I’m sitting at the Contingues de barri. Upload your photo!”.
The aim of the call is to celebrate that exactly one month ago, on November 27, a group of more than 200 young Cuban artists and intellectuals protested in front of the doors of the Cuban Ministry of Culture (MINCULT) in support for the Sant Isidre Movement, the rapper Denis Solís and to demand freedom of expression.
García Aguilar is part of the 27N, a movement formed after the MINCULT protest and called itself “free artists and intellectuals.” That is why he used the electronic tags # HoyEs27, # 27NdeCuba, or # LaRevoluciónDeLosAplausos in his publication, as he has also been called to the demonstration.
Shortly after the first publication, the playwright announced that more people had joined the campaign, while sharing several photos of young people who had decided to reproduce their action: “Photos continue to arrive from the Contingues de neighborhood, “he wrote on Twitter.
The title of the campaign can be a reference to the first verses of the well-known song “Memories”, by Cuban singer-songwriter Carlos Varela, which has been a symbol of free expression and social criticism of Cuban pop culture for years. 90.
Yunior Aguilar García is known for his recent prominence within the 27N and for his critical statements about the Cuban government on social media: “once again everything was in promises,” said the playwright on the request for dialogue for the freedom of expression that Cuban officials denied to 27N protesters.
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