Cuba’s Caribbean Festival Dedicated to Honduras in 2009

HAVANA, Cuba. A large representation of Honduran artists, including the Garifuna Folkloric Ballet, will participate in the 29th Caribbean Festival that will take place in Santiago de Cuba from July 3-9, 2009.

According to Prensa Latina news agency, the annual festival will also be attended by Guillermo Anderson, one of the most prestigious musicians of the Central American nation.

Cuban Culture Deputy Minister Salvador Suazo said that, as the special guest of this year’s festival, Honduras will take the opportunity to include topics related to the history and culture of the Caribbean in an academic forum with the participation of historians and anthropologists.

Aurelio Martinez, a member of the organizing committee of the event, said that the delegation from the Central American nation will be comprised of more than 120 Honduran dancers, actors, musicians, painters and writers.

Honduras is the first Central American country to which the Caribbean Festival is dedicated since it began in 1983.

(Amplia presencia hondureña en Festival del Caribe, en Cuba)