As part of the activities to commemorate the Day of Cuban Culture, on October 25 the Embassy of Cuba in Barbados celebrated the 65th anniversary of the founding of ICAIC by screening the film “Cuba Libre” at the Cinematheque of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Barbados.
Our Ambassador, Yanet Stable Cárdenas addressed a few words to the audience to signify the sad moment in Cuba's history that this film deals with - the American intervention in Cuba - just when our Mambi troops were liberating the Cuban people from the Spanish colonial yoke.
The film was of great interest to the guests, mainly to more than twenty students of the Faculty of Social Sciences and other students and professors of the Faculty of Culture and the Faculty of Foreign Languages of this university campus.
This feature film by director Jorge Luis Sanchez is a fiction film that reflects one of the saddest and most disappointing moments in the history of Cuba.
Today the U.S. military troops do not occupy our country as they did in 1898, when the Cubans of that time, with certain errors, could not prevent the pretensions of the Americans. With the Cubans of today, exactly the opposite is true, despite the fact that each U.S. administration that is in office continues with the same pretensions of yesteryear. For more than six decades they have imposed on us the hostile policy of the Genocidal Blockade, they intend to starve an entire people to death, but no matter who does not like it and no matter who does not like it, the Cuban people resist and we will continue to defend our sovereignty because today it is, and will always be, Cuba Libre!