Deputy Ministers Fernando Rojas and Kenelma Carvajal have been replaced by the Ministry of Culture.

Cuba's Ministry of Culture replaced Fernando Rojas and Kenelma Carvajal Pérez as deputy ministers., which was announced at the Board of Directors meeting held on Monday. A note published through official channels on social networks and copied by the portal CubePad “Liberation by renewal,” he pointed out.

In Rojas's place, one of the Commissioners for Cultural Policy, who was strongly opposed to censorship and creative freedom, and Carvajal Pérez, wife of Fidel Castro's son Alex Castro Soto del Valle, Lizette Martínez Luzardo, who served as General Director of Cultural Policies, and Lilitsy Hernández Oliva, President of the National Council of the National Council, were appointed..

According to the official statement, “This movement responds The country's policy of gradual renewal of administrative staff at all levels, and practically confirms the hope of revolution among the youth.

In the presence of the leaders of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, state and government, the branch's Minister Alpidio Alonso Grau and other directors praised the outgoing deputy for his “long history of work and meritorious work”. Ministers. The Board of Directors of the Ministry of Culture also recognized the “devotion, revolutionary loyalty and impeccable ethical conduct of the two personnel”..

The government has decided that Fernando Rojas will continue as adviser to the Minister of Culture, while Kenelma Carvajal will be assigned new tasks. By the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

Lizette Martínez and Lillitsy Hernández are trained as art instructors, have held various government positions and have earned accolades and respect in the field, according to the text of the note.

Martínez Luzardo was one of the officials who went to confront participants in a peaceful protest in front of the Ministry of Culture in January 2021, following a historic demonstration led by dozens of artists and intellectuals two months earlier. Fernando Rojas was involved in the same confrontation where Minister Alonso Grau attacked a journalist from the DIARIO DE CUBA.

Rachel Garcia Heredia, the current Provincial Director of Culture of Holguin, was appointed to serve as the President of the National Performing Arts Committee.

The two deputy ministers who had been “freed” were the last to intervene in audit matters. INSTAR started a campaign against the film festival celebrationOrganized by the Hannah Arendt Institute of Artivism, it was directed by Cuban artist Tania Bruguera and took place in eight countries, including seven major cities on two continents.

Official publication of MINCULT, JiribillaIn one of its regular defamation activities, it issued a text Official site CubePadIn this The film exhibition has been accused of glorifying anti-Cuban terrorism. for including the film in their program VeritasCuba Eliezer Jimenez Almeida.

Kenelma Carvajal later wrote: “Once again, the machine of the counter-revolution (SIC) is attacking the institutional system of culture and the cinema festival of the Cuban people.”

Later, Rojas defined the film Calls from Moscow, Cuban director Luis Alejandro Yero, would not be allowed as an “attack on the revolution.” Yero took to his social networks to denounce the censorship of his feature-length documentary At the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana