In our first roundtable at the 37th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires, performed the same day that Mario Vargas Llosa gave his speech, expressed the following opinion:
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Tide part of the Book Fair since 1995. We have made numerous committees and other cultural activities in this field, always with the support and sponsorship of the stand and bookcase Catari Estate. Together with publishers who survived the vicissitudes of the industry in Argentina, we fight for the dissemination of a national culture, popular, democratic, in the interests of our people. By contrast, the major international book monopolies seek above all their profits, and impose on their authors the benefit of its commercial and ideological interests. The invitation for Mario Vargas Llosa to give a keynote speech expressed exactly these concerns.
Vargas Llosa is a prominent writer, an intellectual with an intense political life. He ran for the presidency of his country and is an active advocate of policies and powers that oppress our people. In fact, just arrived in Buenos Aires to participate in a pro-imperialist right conclave, organized by a U.S. institution. Has justified the genocidal invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan, and despises the struggle of indigenous peoples in Latin America, as we noted in our magazine.
Some pro-government intellectuals have expressed a justified repudiation on the central role that the show has given to Vargas Llosa and his speech. We understand that addressing these facts, we need not reduce the political positions between "official" and "right-wing opposition" because it denies the diversity of political and social positions existing in the cultural field and promotes the division of national and popular field.
From our work as intellectuals and cultural workers in its broadest sense, committed to the struggle of peoples for release, we consider it necessary to refer to discussion all cultural policies, official and private, to deepen economic and cultural dependence on Argentina. Not only Vargas Llosa statements detrimental to the dignity of our people, also those actions which undermine their cultural production and identity. For example, budget cuts, privileges granted to multinational corporations and economic groups-government, the various forms of discrimination in political and ideological debate to be truly comprehensive, and the discouragement of critical expressions of cultural dependency and culture-tourism scheme, mass media that defend the monopolies of the culture industry. Economic and cultural policies that impair the creative capacities to fight for an independent Argentina, democratic, which ensures that the great majority of the use and enjoyment of all the tangible and symbolic that you own.
Marea
Buenos Aires, April 21, 2011
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