"Cuban artists and writers condemn all attempts to tarnish the poetic and human career of Nancy, and we express our solidarity with the distinguished creator. No hatred will stand in the way of Cuban culture and poetry," said Alberto Marrero, president of the National Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC), denouncing "the smear campaign against one of the most outstanding and recognized voices of Cuban lyrics, poet and essayist Nancy Morejón, winner of the National Prize for Literature in 2001.
The official was accompanied at the Sala Villena of the institution by different generations of authors and artists, in which he referred that "in recent hours those whose purpose is to subvert the social order adopted by the majority of Cubans went to digital spaces echoing that campaign" against the artists who had been invited to the Poetry Market 2023 in Paris.
Some people "on the side of the haters lobbied the organizers of the event to deprive the Cuban writer of her status as President of Honor, with which a work of international resonance had been done justice". To achieve this, the French Club Pen and some of its supporters appealed to overused common sites in the attacks against artists and intellectuals who live and work among us, those who are targeted for their fidelity and devotion to their people and culture".
The International Poetry Festival of Havana also condemned the cultural and communication war against Cuba and its Revolution by attacking outstanding intellectuals.
The World Poetic Movement, of which Morejón is a member, issued a statement "calling for the condemnation of these acts against Cuban culture in every country in the world. Nancy's so-called "sin" is living and working in Cuba and defending the Cuban Revolution.
The Movement calls on the international community to condemn the situation that "Cuban artists who go abroad to do their work have to endure in the face of a wave of extreme mediocrity and politicization, a practice that insults and seeks to humiliate any artist who is faithful to his or her people and stands behind them in the face of the imperial attack and the economic, financial, commercial, mediatic, diplomatic and cultural war that the United States of America is waging against the small socialist island of the Caribbean".
