CAMAGÜEY.- Ignacio Ramonet is taking roots into this city and the proof of it are his two stayings this year here; first in March for the Book Fair and now for the event in which the young creators celebrate the anniversary of the sociocultural project Golpe a Golpe, reason why, this dear Spanish friend met with neighbors of the neighborhoods Piña and Torre Blanca.
“I feel very good in this city and to me it is an interesting perspective to have the project of coming back”, said at the Literary Café La Comarca, as a guest of the space Estrechando espacios, where he commented about the priorities in his life and offered his keys as an international observer.
“In this moment, the world rebellion is taking place. We are living one of the rare moments in history when suddenly in many countries, a generation uprise. From Hong Kong to Chile, there are scores of countries where the people are on the streets, going through the Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, India, Algeria, France, Spain, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile…, with different circumstances. The last time something like this happened in a zone, was in 2011 with the Arab Spring”, explained.
His words were a lesson of political culture and a stimulus to address the eyes to the world from connexions of the specific realities where men is still in the center of the debate.
“This are protest where the youth is at the vanguard. They do not have the same political character because there are no Authoritarian regimes in almost any country, but democracies. These are societies that do not look at the future with optimism. These youth does not accepts the fatality of the neoliberalism imposed 40 years ago. The youth does not settle with loosing the chance of a future better that that of their parents, when the perspective is to have a future worst that that of their parents, for the first time in a century”, affirmed.
The journalist and political scientist that has published about 25 books, among them, Cien horas con Fidel (One Hundred Hours with Fidel), Hugo Chávez. Mi primera vida (Hugo Chávez. Mi first Life), El imperio de la vigilancia (The Empire of Surveillance), Guerras del siglo XXI (Wars of the 21sr Century)and Irak. La historia de un desastre (Iraq, The story of a Disaster) talked about his literary projects.
“The topics that have caught my attention are essentially about communication, the manipulation or social control, and political science. I am working on this topic, retaking a series of articles and trying to organize a sort of international geopolitics in 2020. The juncture today is world rebellion, but the biggest threat for the planet is climate change. The planet is taking awareness that the climate should not change, what needs to be changed is the neoliberal model imposed through globalization”, added.
He received as a gift a ceramic piece by Nazario Salazar. He also thanked the organizers of the Fair, among them Yunielkis Naranjo, director of Golpe a Golpe, the Hermanos Saíz Association in Camagüey and the Cuban Book Institute.
“My youth passed a long time ago in terms of age, not in terms of actuality. Being young means to understand the moment we are living in and which is the enthusiasm that we put to try to change the world. The project is always to transform the world to be more just, more balanced”.
- Translated by Elianna Díaz Mendieta