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Havana book fair highlights solidarity between Cuba, Vietnam
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BY RÓGER CALERO
Vol. 84/No. 7
February 24, 2020
MILITANT/BASKARAN APPU Cubans browse books at Vietnamese pavilion at
Havana Book Fair. Displays depict Cuba’s solidarity with Vietnam and its
battle for
independence and unification against Washington’s war. figure
Cubans browse books at Vietnamese pavilion at Havana Book Fair. Displays
depict Cuba’s solidarity with Vietnam and its battle for independence
and unification
against Washington’s war.
MILITANT/BASKARAN APPU Cubans browse books at Vietnamese pavilion at
Havana Book Fair. Displays depict Cuba’s solidarity with Vietnam and its
battle for
independence and unification against Washington’s war. figure end
HAVANA — The history of solidarity between revolutionary Cuba and
Vietnam in the struggle against imperialist domination is a major theme
of this year’s
Havana International Book Fair, which opened here Feb. 6. Vietnam is the
country of honor at the 10-day festival of literature and culture.
The book fair has featured book presentations, panel discussions and
cultural performances highlighting Vietnam’s rich history and culture.
The well-attended
Vietnamese pavilion exhibits books on topics from art and literature to
the hard-fought liberation war against Washington in the 1960s and ’70s.
A large multipanel photo display there depicts the solidarity the Cuban
people and government gave the Vietnamese during their struggle for
reunification
against the U.S. rulers’ brutal war and occupation of the South. The
display begins in December 1960, when Cuba’s new revolutionary
government established
diplomatic relations with Hanoi.
The exhibit shows the 1963 founding of the Cuban Committee in Solidarity
with South Vietnam, headed by revolutionary leader Melba Hernández.
Other photos
show the crowds of Cubans who welcomed visits by Vietnamese freedom
fighters to Havana, and the equally warm response Cuban revolutionaries
received in
northern Vietnam during the war.
The Vietnamese “spirit of struggle was like the Cuban spirit,” said
Nguyen Quang Thieu, vice president of the Union of Writers of Vietnam,
at a panel on
the 60th anniversary of Cuba-Vietnam relations.
Thieu pointed to the key factors that led the Vietnamese to prevail over
U.S. imperialism. “There were two sides to our victory — our
revolutionary determination
and the growing unwillingness of U.S. soldiers and the U.S. public to
carry on the war,” he said.
The panel included renowned Cuban revolutionary journalist Marta Rojas,
who in 1965 was the first Latin American war correspondent to visit
National Liberation
Front combatants in areas of southern Vietnam freed from U.S. control.
Also speaking was Nguyen Phuong Nga, president of the Vietnam-Cuba
Friendship Association.
In another program, Antonio Guerrero, one of five Cuban revolutionaries
who spent up to 16 years in U.S. prisons, joined members of the
Vietnamese delegation
and exchanged poetry in a presentation of Diario de prisión (Prison
Diary), a book of poems by Ho Chi Minh, the central leader of the
Vietnamese independence
struggle.
Several books available at the fair, either in Spanish or Vietnamese,
included the 19th century account of Vietnam’s anti-colonial fight
against French
rule that José Martí, Cuba’s national hero, wrote for Cuban children.
In a presentation of his book Fidel: Un guerrillero antillano en el
paralelo 17 (Fidel: A Caribbean guerrilla at the 17th Parallel), Cuban
journalist
José Ángel Llamo Camejo described Fidel Castro’s visit to Vietnam in
September 1973. Castro crossed the 17th Parallel separating North and
South Vietnam,
becoming the first head of state to visit the liberated zones shortly
after Washington had been forced to withdraw all its ground troops.
The Vietnamese won full control of their unified country in April 1975 —
a victory against U.S. imperialism that inspired working people worldwide.
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