The poets all over the world participated in a love and solidarity offensive poetry promoted by poets from 72 countries among them, Austrian Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Laureate for Literature 2004 and Jamaican Linton Kwesi Johnson.

Austrian poet is well known for her advocacy of left- wing policy ideas as well as the prestige of her relevant work which takes in drama, poetry and essays.

Johnson, who lives in London, is considered the creator of dub poetry, an electronic musical genre, with the same development of the reggae.
In this event for "for peace, truth, beauty and social justice", writers from four continents are in favor of the island and reject the media campaign, which latest outbreak was the Spanish Platform for the democratization of Cuba and its manifesto of interventionist purposes.

At the beginning of the steadfast adherence to a nation, that chose to build its own destiny supported by an original and profound process, sparked off the adherence to the Declaration spread by the organizers of the International Poetry Festival of Havana, which will begin tomorrow with the participation of more than 40 countries.
The offensive of love, as Colombian poet Francisco Rendon , who is the president of the Medellin Festival (Colombia) described it , adds new supporters every day this cause to a proper and legitimate nation supported by the vast majority of its people.

The list included renowned  writers such as Thiago de Mello (Brazil), Ernesto Cardenal and Claribel Alegría (Nicaragua), Otoniel Guevara (El Salvador), Juan Antillon (Costa Rica), Moravia Ochoa, Consuelo Ramon and Benjamin Thomas (Panama), Nicole Cage- Florentiny (Martinique), Gerhard Falkner (Germany) and Donatti Alba (Italy),Joy Harjo, Allison Coke Hede, Margo Tamez, Jack Hirschman, Anne Waldmann, Amina Baraka, Quincy Troupe, Graig Czury and Sam Hamil( United States), Agneta Falk, Bengt Berg (Sweden), Gabriel Rosenstock (Ireland), Adnan Al-Sayegh and Salah Hassan (Iraq), Hussein Habash (Kurdistan-Syria) and Ibrahim Nasrallah (Jordan), among many others.

They agreed in denouncing as the intention to keep Cuba in the dock and imposing the Cuba’s reality they want to promote.

Cuba, they endorsed, is not just a name for the enemies.  It is a culture, an ethic, a history, a resistant identity, a mystique island from poetry and imagination.

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