A few hours after the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, claimed in the United States the “Hispanic” attacking the “indigenism that has taken over several Latin American countries”, Toni Cantó and Marta Rivera de la Cruz have presented to the media a cultural program that celebrates “a legacy that we are so proud of. The newcomers to the PP from Ciudadanos also agree to shower praise and gratitude to the president of the Community of Madrid for wanting to parade on Columbus Day “not only the Spanish Army, but also the culture and Hispanic art,” said Cantó.
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The festival with almost a hundred activities in two weeks has been called Hispanidad. All accents fit in Madrid. It has a budget of 850,000 euros and will run from this Tuesday until next October 12, Columbus Day. From the Ministry highlights two events among almost a hundred: the concert at the WiZink Center with Ana Mena, Omar Montes and Yotuel (from 20 to 35 euros per ticket) and a bullfight. They also rescue the stage director Juan Carlos Pérez de la Fuente, whom the corporation of Manuela Carmena fired from the Teatro Español and whose productions were the most expensive and the ones that worked worst at the box office.
Despite talking about the culture that unites “the two shores”, no American has participated in the direction of the program. Marta Rivera de la Cruz says that Karina Saiz [Venezuelan journalist from ABC] and Jorge F. Hernández [former cultural manager of the Mexican embassy] have “helped them to organize the gatherings at the Círculo de Bellas Artes”. So, what is “hispanidad”? “We speak of a common Spanish homeland. Not only those who live here, but also those who speak, understand, study and think in Spanish. It goes beyond the geographical concept,” says Rivera de la Cruz.
No trace of indigenous people
The indigenous culture repudiated by the president of the Community of Madrid is not present among the hundred or so activities. festival of Spanish and culture in Spanish”, says the Minister of Culture of the Community of Madrid, who has preferred to avoid giving an explanation for the absence of this part of the American population. Nor will the exhibition of the Peruvian artist Sandra Gamarra, housed in the heart of the Ministry of Culture, in Alcalá 31, be part of this peculiar celebration of the Hispanic, which has been censured for citing “racism” and “restitution”. The councillor has tried to be convincing by explaining that the exhibition was already planned almost two years ago and that it had already been inaugurated. All the exhibitions in art galleries included in the program, too.
Marta Rivera de la Cruz has assured that this festival “just like the Office of the Spanish” began to talk about it with the president in November 2020, when she was still holding the orange party’s flagpole. “It was she who told me that she thought it was a shame that the Spanishness was not celebrated the culture of Spanish in a very visible way,” explains the Councillor for Culture. “When Toni arrived there was already a very clear roadmap,” Rivera de la Cruz explains. So, if the programming has been carried out by the technicians of the Regional Ministry, what has Toni Cantó’s work consisted of?
Well, the programming has been carried out by the technicians and by me. I have made some proposals that I wanted and we have put them in common Gonzalo, Ruperto and I – answers Toni Cantó.
Hey, and me too, eh,” interrupts Marta Rivera de la Cruz.
And you too, Marta, you too,” Cantó agrees with his boss.
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