Numerous representatives of Argentine theater activity rejected this Saturday “the model of country proposed by (the candidate of La Libertad Avanza) Javier Milei” and called to vote on the presidential formula headed by Sergio Massa, from Unión por la Patria, to “defend our theater, our culture and a present State”.
The proclamation delivered to the press It is signed by more than 100 personalities such as Gustavo Uano, executive director of the National Theater Institute (INT); Alejandra Darín, actress and president of the Argentine Association of Actors; playwrights of the stature of Griselda Gambaro, César Brie, Mauricio Kartun or Claudio Tolcachir, and performers such as Moria Casán, Jean Pierre Noher, Juan Palomino, Luisa Kuliok, Osmar Núñez, among many and many more.
“Theaters from all corners of the Argentine Republic, emerging from a system of collective organization; Throughout history we have suffered firsthand the devious attacks of those who, being owners of real power, seek to prevent the consolidation of a State of Law and Social Justice,» begins the text, which reviews «memorable» struggles in which he participated. the performing community in Argentine history.
“The epic crusade of Open Theater, which faced the last civic-military dictatorship in the ’80s; or the loud contests against the policies of exclusion, adjustment and devastation of neoliberalism in the ’90s, in 2001 or in 2015 under the government of Mauricio Macri,» they list, and add that «those same sectors of power are unaware of the construction achieved by the militancy of hundreds of Cultural workers over several decades, express the recurring threat of suppression of the Ministry of Culture and its decentralized organizations: Incaa, INT, Inamu, FNA, Conabip, among others.”
In that sense, the signatories of the statement point out against «the reckless speeches of La Libertad Avanza», which they consider «put in immediate danger the symbolic, federal and diverse survival of the Independent Theater.»
“It is explicit that the country model proposed by Javier Milei means the complete defunding of the sector, the closure of theaters and spaces, the paralysis of productions, the consequent withdrawal of theatrical work, especially in communities far from urban centers, limiting cultural consumption to socially privileged segments,” they say.
For these reasons, they state that “the situation of this present” demands “conscience, action and the certain defense of a present State, with and for the people” and call to “defend life in democracy, our sovereignty and our cultural diversity by voting by Sergio Tomas Massa.”