HAVANA.- The Concert for Cuba, organized by Chicago's HotHouse, is a cultural exchange that validates the belief that the most important thing is to build bridges, US lawyer and producer Bill Martinez said.

In a telephone interview with Prensa Latina news agency on the event, which will take place on line next July 18-19, Martinez noted that all organizers, artists and speakers have common humanitarian values and honor the work of the brigades of the Henry Reeve Medical Contingent.

US media have not mentioned the physicians' brave work, the humanitarian nature of Cuba's medical services despite the oppressive conditions created by Washington's hostile policy against Cuba.

As culture is communication, these exchanges can express to the world that there is a better future though our messages of peace, love and our shared humanity, Martinez added.

The Cuban artists were chosen by the Cuban Music Institute and regarding the American artists, 'there are several of them who have previously performed in Cuba or have expressed their interest in Cuba, the music has a wide range of styles, like Afro-Cuban/Latin jazz, rock, pop and blues,' Martinez commented.

The concert was conceived by Marguerite Horberg, founder and CEO of HotHouse, who contacted the representative of the producers/artists, Raul Cuza, a Cuban citizen based in Havana and Canada.

A platform with these characteristics is organized for the first time in cultural relations between the United States and Cuba. The program proposes daily broadcast for about two and a half hours at 20:00 hours (Havana, New York), 19:00 (Chicago) and 17:00 (Los Angeles).