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words of Pedro Pablo Oliva

words of Pedro Pablo Oliva

05/23/2011 Following that was revoked as a delegate to the Assembly Provincial People's Power in Pinar del Rio "I confess I had not ever want to talk about these things.

have been and are too strong to keep them in my memory. I delete them. If I do is because some friends have asked me

not be silent and why things started taking a turn
that forces me to communicate. I think today is better.

love my country. Those who know me know it's not a false word spoken. preferred to stay in my room, I saw that flying kites and collect rosemary and a much needed breath
new and different vision of things.
I come from the world of artistic creation and thought.
not accustomed artists to stay anchored in the realm of what we say
, we investigate and we look for another explanation of the world and we

seems much more convincing a tree full of flowers that
demagoguery of an official. No we never question the reality and transform
, even when we say naive and uninformed.

When a few years ago I was asked if he would
part of the Provincial Assembly of People's Power as CEO and
said yes, I did because it seemed appropriate participate in the
context of the province, helping not only with my project

House Workshop and my work as a creator, but with my modest
approach to help improve in the field of culture.
other hand, I thought it was extraordinary to learn more about the functioning of an organ
had closer ties with the

everyday man. Reality is always more than what can tell the press or television. Palpable truth that sometimes we can be another truth.

When I was called to inform me about the complaint he had filed a delegate against me with the view that no longer possessed the necessary conditions, for which I was elected and asking for the

evaluate me for the separation of this responsibility, I confess that nothing took me by surprise.

A series of events where he was involved the Home Workshop
eventually triggered the letter I wrote to Yoani

Sánchez and was published in his blog with my approval , n. believe today that those events were poorly managed by public institutions. The use of violent methods never served or will serve to placate
nothing in the world of ideas (I refer to the Declaration of the House Workshop
published on its website www.casatalleroliva.org

).
also granted an interview for the Miami radio program "Night Moves", directed by Edmund
Garcia, who has performed frequently on the island

interviews with other intellectuals Cubans.
My words spoken at both sites
violated or contradicted the ideological constitution and code of ethics, which governs the structure of government

signed for me to assume my responsibility
Popular Power. That is why, I came to According to the delegate who made the complaint
. Seeking
as a person who loves his country, a better society, but the search

not always have to agree with the ideas of a party. not idealize any society. I am not blind, in which I lived, I probing social differences accentuate poverty. Ours has stopped

not have their patches from time to time. All are there for improvement with criticism or questioning.

I was accused, among other things, have made public my thoughts on
the "realm of dissent." No fear to any space.

Furthermore I am convinced that no official press agency, or newspaper, or
radio, no television, no website had published my words, au n

when I took full responsibility. In any case,
participate with ideas in other areas of debate does not in any way
similar thoughts.
It also challenges me to maintain friendly relations with certain
"counterrevolutionary elements." The friends I choose.

People who know me know that the same talk to a convinced communist
with a liberal one sweet selling no interest in politics, a
retired teacher, buquenque or agent named Robin.
not discriminate political affiliation in my relations with others.

I've always grateful to a social process called Revolucióny which,
I say in a radio interview, I must have been formed him as
creator. But I'm a man who does not remain silent about what
considered wrong.
I leave some things clear because I know deal with
narrowness of thinking and handling. CIA does not pay me, I hold the Cuban Foundation

American or other, or the Polish and Czech embassies
with whom I have the best relations cultural
in a climate of respect. I own I have managed to work
force. Duro was not losing the language in these years.
societies where everyone thinks alike, especially in such controversial areas as
politics or ideology, there are, and how good.

The immobility of thought is the cancer of social processes. The
who know me know that the art world always opted for the critical work because it seemed
that the first function of art was to help improve society
the question or complaint. That led me to assume
sometimes the spirit of a sociologist, or psychologist, and others simply

, analysis of man-faced artist
to time. To record my time was the beginning and end of my
work, collecting part of the spiritual state of the years that I lived.
Material of Thought on Cuba is of interest to me, to be published
inside or outside the country. I love to read those who think differently. The island

For a while I did not stop at its borders.
live in a country marked each day by people obsessed with a
from anywhere. That is not the country that dreamed. I know the president of the
nation is making efforts to organize our battered economy,
daunting task, but even more I will try to unify the nation
spiritually. It was much tearing. But yes, I have the
right to disagree with one method or another. I have the right to doubt. The ethics commission created to evaluate the complaint against me,
determined that I had gone to "the ranks of dissent" in the
political terms that is valued in the country.
other delegates and to the president of People's Power Provincial Assembly approved

not only the classification of "dissident" and
"counter" it provided, among many, a traitor
the country and to statehood, there were expressions
heard or for the more radical opponents. I refuse to accept these allegations
by the mere fact of expressing my ideas.

We took the difficult decision to close the Home Workshop, because the direction of People's Power
considered that the project had diverted the cultural objectives
by which it was founded.
culture as if it were not thought, struggle and contradictions.
This man who now have placed the suit of "dissident" or
"counter" has no intention to leave this country

. This land belongs to us all for a right not granted
a game. I think loyalty to the country is not loyalty to a party.
A party is a social given, and the country saved itself the
thoughts and hearts of all.
'll keep dreaming of a better country, that I have rights as human beings.
Here I stay, this is my land and my people. The conflict in the country,
economic, spiritual and political, will have to be solved by

us Cubans. Those who live inside and outside, with anyone else.
sleep now quiet come back tomorrow and get my brushes. "
Pedro Pablo Oliva

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