Araiz Torres, linked to Klatus Creativo, the main sponsor of the event that ended this weekend with at least half a dozen young people injured at the Finca de Los Monos, in Havana, said that “institutional communication failed at all levels”and clarified that “it was never reported that it had not been authorized” activity, entering into contradiction in the latter with the Government of Havana, which said the opposite.
In a text full of darts and ironies, the entrepreneur – because she clarified that she is not a civil servant or state worker – argued that She did not have to know or check the protocols and that the request was made in writing.
He also said that now “It is easier to take refuge in bureaucracy” to explain what happened, and said not to give up “on a better possible world.”
“Could it seriously occur to anyone that both my project and the Finca woke up: ‘Today is a beautiful morning for a massive and uncontrolled activity of teenagers, let’s do it?’” Torres ironically stated at the beginning of his extensive text, in which He regretted that a proposal for teenagers and with teenagers, “so necessary and affordable for the summer,” had been ruined.
“As an entrepreneur because I am not a civil servant or state worker, I am independent; As a mother of a teenager who knows her needs, as a grandmother, as a teacher and filmmaker who has based her career on creativity, the training of new generations, the defense of culture and language, I think that The convening power of the networks and the scope of the need that adolescents have for proposals like these were underestimated.”, he added, the latter argument coinciding with the explanation given by Finca de Los Monos.
Torres says that now there are fewer resources and that a similar activity has “so many requirements” that it would be almost impossible to carry out.
“It was never reported that it had not been authorized, nor that it was suspended, so institutional communication at all levels also failed, because all of us involved were there for its realization with total ignorance, after a consented national promotion”he added.
The Cuban entrepreneur said that teenagers still have no options, that they need to adapt to current dynamics, and that it is easier to “protect themselves in bureaucracy”, perhaps in reference to the list of aspects that the activity did not meet, as listed in the Cuban Television spokesperson Humberto López.
“I have the peace of mind that it was informed in writingthat the participating adolescents who were inside the facility, who were more than 400, were protected, that access to the institution was immediately stopped, when we responsibly saw that the public was increasing exponentially,” Araiz Torres stated in another moment of his explanation.
“I don’t have to know or check the protocols, I was providing a service and the request for external support was made in writing. I feel sorry for others and I am not going to give up on a better possible world”, he concluded.
Klatus Creativo is a business with more than four years of experience that “provides audiovisual and computer production services, advertising campaigns, events and fairs.”
Araiz Torres, linked to RTV Comercial according to her Facebook page and creator of Klatus Creativo, an initiative that, in its cultural aspect, was organized by Habanarte in Finca de los Monos, He had promoted the event on television and had even shared the appearance on his social networks.
“Habanarte, in symbiosis with the Cerro government, with the management of Finca de Los Monos itself, we are creating a whole kind of day, for the five years since Finca de Los Monos was created, and we are going to do this activity for the beginning of the summer”Torres pointed out during his television intervention, implying that the activity was known to all instances and approved at all levels.
At the hearing, Torres stated that the activity would be aimed at adolescents between 12 and 18 years old, arguing that it is important to offer them healthy places. In addition, she pointed out that there would be “spaces of interest” and other cultural proposals.
A poster promoting the event presented it as “Start of youth summer 2024”scheduled to take place between 5 and 11 pm, with an entrance fee of 100 pesos and with the presence of new artists of the urban genre.
The Government of Havana This Sunday he denied that there were deaths during the mass fight which took place on Saturday afternoon around the Finca de los Monos.
Hours after the news went viral on social networks, the government entity published a statement in which described the news related to the death of young people as “false”and explained that the incident was related to “an unapproved activity”, where “a disturbance of order occurred during movement to the exterior areas of the facility.”
The official source initially said that The incident left two people injured without life-threatening injuries. and? Government authorities and the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) intervened to restore order. The text also attacked independent media and profiles on social networks that made the fact known.
Despite the clarifications, the fight left strong images of young people armed with machetes and other sharp objects, which demonstrated the high level of existing violence in the country.
In the last hours, Government spokesman Humberto López raised the number of injured in the event to six, and reiterated the false nature of the information that went viral on social networks.
As usual, the official denial came at the wrong time, when the networks were already burning with large numbers of dead and injured.
This reality, which is also recurrent in Cuba, motivated a brief but accurate reflection by the popular actor Luis Silva: “Do you know why there are so many Fake News? Because you take a long time to give the Real News“this is how concisely the actor summed up his feelings in his Instagram stories, in a clear – but veiled – reproach to the government.
