By Carmen Esquivel
Varsot is the identify of this group that bears the initials of the mambí fighter and that was created within the coastal commune of San Antonio by Rodrigo Devia, Antonio Alonso and Marcos González with the intention of selling solidarity.
We have now two areas of motion, Antonio Alonso defined to Prensa Latina. Right here in Chile we sponsor the Río Rapel soccer college for kids and adolescents.
We even have a undertaking that consists of accumulating bicycles in poor situation, repairing them after which lending them for an indefinite interval to kids with restricted assets in rural communities.
In Cuba’s case, the inspiration promotes solidarity suitcases, which encompass taking medicines, supplies and provides to hospitals equivalent to Faustino Pérez, in Matanzas, or to polyclinics like Elpidio Berovides, in La Lisa municipality, in Havana.
In La Lisa, the inspiration transformed the Elpidio Valdés park, painted a mural with the help of Chilean artist Tato Ayres, who lives there, and put in kids’s video games.
A part of Varsot’s work can also be to advertise the change of artists and to unfold the fact in Cuba, which has been blockaded by the US for greater than 60 years. Because of this, the documentary “Culpables” (Responsible), a denunciation of the financial, industrial and monetary blockade towards the Caribbean island, by Cuban moviemaker Yaimi Ravelo, will probably be introduced right here quickly.
Different audiovisual supplies are “La Gota de Agua” (The Water Drop), directed by Iriana Pupo and Ravelo; and “Dónde Están los Girars”, by Bolivian-Cuban filmmaker Sergio Eguino, all produced by Resumen Latinoamericano.
“The solidarity between the Chilean and Cuban peoples is historic and in a roundabout way we need to pay tribute to Pedro Vargas Sotomayor, a compatriot of ours who fought there, participated in lots of battles and campaigned from East to West,” Alonso mentioned.
He recalled that Cuba was additionally in solidarity with Chile within the Seventies, throughout the federal government of Salvador de Allende and after the coup d’état with the Chilean exiles, and so there are deep ties that should be saved.
“We’re admirers of the Cuban course of, of its music, traditions and tradition, we imagine in neighborhood tasks and we should give again to life how beneficiant it has been with us,” he said.
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