Gustavo Pereira: Misión Viva Venezuela my Beloved Homeland is a debt owed to the People
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Published at: 16/02/2024 09:05 PM
The Venezuelan poet Gustavo Pereira, assured this Friday, the 16th, that the Great Mission Viva Venezuela mi Patria Querida, “is a debt we owed to our people, to give dignity to our cultural traditions.”
“Some of them centuries-old traditions, perhaps, what they call progress has mythologized some, let's say, in the true sense of the word popularized others, that is, giving it an ecumenical diffusion above all,” he said.
The statement was made at the Teresa Carreño Theater, on the occasion of the launch led by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, of the Great Mission Viva Venezuela mi Patria Querida, Venezuela sings and dances, which will promote policies and the various manifestations of the country's music, singing, rhythms and dance.
He also said that Venezuela has incredible cultural manifestations in all its diversity, “that's us, a multicultural being.”
Pereira was born on March 7, 1940 on Margarita Island, he is a prominent Venezuelan and Latin American poet, winner of the National Prize for Literature of Venezuela (2001), writer of the Preamble to the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
His literary works include the Book of the Someris (1974), Second Book of the Somaris (1979), Preparations for the Journey (1964), The Interior of the Shadows (1968), The Four Horizons of Heaven (1970), among others.
He was also part of the National Constituent Assembly in 1999, studied at the University of Paris, was the founder of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Center for Socio-Humanistic Research of the University of the Orient (UDO).
Mazo News Team