Ministers of Communication and Culture praised the memory of the poet Juan Calzadilla

Published at: 17/06/2025 04:59 PM

This Tuesday, June 17, the Minister of Popular Power for Communication, Freddy Ñáñez, and his Minister for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, exalted the memory of the poet Juan Calzadilla, during an event in homage and to say a final goodbye to the Venezuelan teacher.

In that regard, Ñáñez stressed that we thank Maestro Calzadilla for having given so much for our country. “We know that it was another spirit of comedy, that of tragedy (...) Juan Calzadilla left a very robust poetic work, which is undoubtedly a reference for Spanish-speaking poetry ,” he said.

In addition, he recalled that the teacher wrote “six very amusing epitaphs that diminish the gravity that we usually give to death from our cultural and religious perspective”. At the same time, he recalled that the teacher was always an enemy of formal acts and everything that was official.

He reaffirmed that Calzadilla was the founder of a cultural institution and that he opened the doors to the avant-garde, “but above all he was a teacher, who always strived to teach how to think, feel and act in the field of culture and Venezuela.”

For his part, Minister Villegas stressed that today “we dismissed a rebel with a cause who knew how to build boundaries between the different disciplines of art; he was a poet, visual artist and art critic, but above all he dedicated his life to training”.

He reaffirmed that Calzadilla's work will continue to travel the country with the young poets who are now training in every school. “Venezuela pays tribute to the memory of Juan Calzadilla and does not leave a vacuum, what it leaves is an example and a path to follow,” he said.

Mazo News Team