Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.- With the First Man and Nature Exhibition Erik L. Ekman next September here, the naif art group Bayate will ratify its commitment to the defense of the natural environment, sources of this artistic and community initiative reported today.
Gabriel Soler, communications coordinator, said the event will pay tribute to the remarkable Swedish naturalist who was part of the presence of citizens of that country settled in areas of the current municipality of Julio A. Mella, including the settlements of Palmarito de Cauto and Bayate.
With this reverence, he said, the artists have gone back to their origins closely linked to the natural landscape and to this primitive and spontaneous tendency to reflect the human being inserted in their environment.
New Constitutional reflects economic updates
Havana, Cuba.- Since the beginning of the constitutional reform process, much has been written about the reasons change is needed, and foremost among these is the need to adjust the country’s fundamental law to our current reality, especially the transformations underway as the Policy Guidelines from the Seventh Party Congress are implemented, in accordance with strategic projections outlined in the Conceptualization of our economic model.
Thus it is no surprise that, as the popular consultation began on Monday – to continue through November 15 – many have noted that this reform is consistent with the economic updating underway, and that there are many connections to documents approved during the Seventh Party Congress which point toward a more just, sovereign, socialist, democratic, prosperous and sustainable society.
Basic principles in the current Constitution are maintained, including the reaffirmation that our economic system is based on the socialist ownership of the means of production by the entire people, and directed with planning.
Among novel elements is the recognition of various forms of property coexisting with the economy (socialist, cooperative, private, etc), and that the state will encourage those of a more social nature, in line with the Conceptualization and the Guidelines.
Likewise consistent with these programmatic documents, the proposed Constitution proscribes, “the concentration of property by individuals or non-state incorporated entities, to preserve limits that are compatible with socialist values of equity and social justice.”
Within a separate title on Economic Fundamentals noted is the concept that the market is to be taken into consideration within the framework of economic planning; defined are the basic means of production that are owned by the people, as well as their inalienable nature. It is established that “the state directs, regulates, and controls national economic activity.” Obligatory expropriation is maintained, although only for reasons of public necessity or social interest.
Thus, ensuring concordance between programmatic documents approved at Seventh Party Congress and our new Constitution means validating the vision of a prosperous society we have proposed for ourselves.
Soler added the Hall will be open at the Naif Bayate Studio-Workshop in the historic center of the city, from September 15 to October 14, with a special dedication to the three decades of the Amazon to the Caribbean expedition, led by Cuban scientist Antonio Nuñez Jimenez Jimenez.
The painters from Santiago participated last July for the fifth consecutive time in the Festival of Popular Art in the city of Santa Fe, in the state of New Mexico, and were again nominated for the International Award for the greatest community impact.
Members of Bayate group are preparing to take part, from September 24th to 30th, in the 2nd International Exhibition of Naif Art in Lima, Peru, where Ibrahim Valera and Yunior Inciarte will present their works, as well as Luis J. Rodriguez Arias, founder of the group, as guest of honor.