Minister Cazal: VIII Cultural Festival with the Peoples of Africa is an act of collective management

Published at: 28/05/2026 11:59 AM

The VIII Cultural Festival with the Peoples of Africa was inaugurated at the Tiuna El Fuerte Cultural Park, in Caracas, within the framework of the XXI World Africa Week, with the participation of national authorities, diplomatic representatives and Venezuelan scholars.

The event was attended by the Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Raúl Cazal, and Foreign Minister Yván Gil, who accompanied the beginning of this day aimed at strengthening cultural ties and the shared historical heritage between Venezuela and African nations, according to a note from the Ministry for Culture.

During his speech, Cazal stated that the festival constitutes “an act of collective gestation” aimed at exalting the common struggles and identity elements that unite the peoples of the Global South.

“Empires calculated bodies available for extraction and death, but today we respond to them with what we always knew how to do: that is to create life where they declared that there could not be one and to find us where they said we would be separated forever,” he said and recalled the resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans as a crime against humanity.

The Minister of Culture also highlighted the historical resistance of Afro-descendant peoples to colonialism and noted that African cultural contributions continue to be present in the forms of organization, creation and memory of Latin American peoples.

“This Cultural Festival with the Peoples of Africa is not a simple event (...) We bring Africa to the forefront of our daily struggles and Africa brings us along the same generational chain that no ocean could ever interrupt,” said Cazal, while thanking the participation of international delegations, cultivators and attendees gathered in this space of cultural exchange.

Mazo News Team