Georgetown: Over 90 poets from 25 nations signed a declaration expressing their condemnation of the interventionist policy implemented by the US government against Cuba, according to President of the Guyana-Cuba Solidarity Movement (GCSM) Halim Khan.
The meeting was held at the José Martí National Library place where the then Commander in Chief Fidel Castro addressed intellectuals 60 years ago.
Khan said that the Trump administration had declared the most severe new sanctions against Cuba in April last since President John F. Kennedy imposed an economic embargo banning all trade with the communist island in 1962.
On the occasion of the Havana Poetry Biennial that concludes on May 31, Khan said attendees raised their voices “against war, violence, aggressions and threats with imperial overtones”.
He said that the poets contended that poetry will prevail under all circumstances because of its love and boundless possibility.
“Both Latin America and the Caribbean have barely been as close to a conflagration hazard as that prepared by the US Government with the silence and complicity of some other nations,” Khan noted.
The GCSM President said the majestic event was also the perfect site to pay tribute to the World Marvel City, which will soon be celebrating its 500th anniversary and inspiration for the event attended by important local poets for nearly thirty countries.
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