Ciego de Avila DDC 
29/01/2011 His differences with the organization official refer to the 'War of the emails' in 2007. Recently worked with DDC.
The poet, novelist, essayist and editor Francis Sanchez resigned from the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) for reasons not explained, according to a note posted on his blog.
"I do not care to detour to particular facts and depressing, with the last drops and perhaps children that could have overwhelmed my disappointment," wrote Sanchez. Born in
Ceballos (Ciego de Avila, 1970), published his first poems at age fourteen.
His poems tied to the mast Revelations (1996) was shortlisted for the National Critics Award. He founded the Catholic Press Union of Cuba in 1996. His books of poetry, fiction and essays have been published in Cuba, Mexico and Spain. He is considered one of the leading voices of the poetic generation that emerged in Cuba in the late twentieth century.
His differences with the UNEAC from afar.
During the exchange of emails, regarding the television appearance of Luis Pavón Tamayo and other political commissars of culture in the seventies (2007), Sanchez was one of the opponents of the official response, the Secretariat of the Declaration UNEAC - and held an exchange of critical especially with the then vice president of the Cuban Book Institute, Fernando Jacomino.
Francis Sanchez had to endure him to take it on face the fees received for their publications.
To which Sanchez replied one of the emails crossed: "I intend not to embitter me your assumption that I live in a country that you or someone has borrowed. I attend events, publishes books, jurors do, work and then collect what they owe me, I walk the streets, breathe and speak and write because ... [...] While I am still living, I repeat, I will not be bitter about the possibility that any official can face tomorrow echármelo at a time it should. "
Recently, Sanchez worked in the JOURNAL OF CUBA dossier dedicated to the centennial of Lezama Lima.
UNEAC's resignation means the ostracism of the writer, because their books are published in the Island may not participate in events and have difficulty traveling abroad. _____________________
WRITER Felix Sanchez also renounce the DDC
UNEAC
Madrid 02/03/2011
"I think it is dishonest to continue to belong, advantages of any kind, an organization with which one disagrees and more than one main reason, "he says.
The writer Félix Sánchez on Wednesday issued a letter of resignation to the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), issued on 4 November 2010 at the official representation of that entity in Ciego de Avila province in which reside.
"There has been this unexpected decision, nor part of a grievance especially for an event, "says Felix Sanchez in his letter, released through the blog of writer Francis Sanchez, who also recently resigned from the UNEAC.
" is the result of a long meditation on the role of UNEAC in our society, its functioning, its correspondence with what I consider to be an organization of designers to the forefront by his way of creating and thinking, for their commitment at any cost to truth, and traditional values \u200b\u200bof our identity grown by an intelligentsia that we were proud to fight with his attitude to everything that did not have the people at the center of their concerns, which did not recognize in him the highest authority, the measure of the legitimacy of any dream, purpose and result, "said Felix Sanchez.
" In recent years I have waited to see the UNEAC assuming that civic responsibility, cultural and political. But I spent the waiting time, and I think it is dishonest to continue to belong, advantages of any kind, an organization with which one disagrees and more than one main reason, "he adds." In a genuinely socialist Cuba! " he concludes.
Felix Sanchez (Ciego de Avila, 1955) won the 2010 Latin American Short Story Award Julio Cortázar. In 2005, the Hermanos Saiz Association awarded Iriondo Vincent Award for the Work of Life.
has received, among other honors, the Medal for the thirtieth anniversary of the FAR (1986), and Exemplary Service to the FAR (2001), the Provincial of the Critics Award (1993 and 2005), the Child Status Illustrious Ciego de Avila (2004), and the Distinction of the Wraith Ciego UNEAC the best operator (2005).
has also won prizes in numerous stories and novels in Cuban literary competitions. His decision to waive the UNEAC likely mean that the regime's authorities will marginalize the cultural life of the island
In 2007, during the exchange of emails, by the way television appearance of Luis Pavón Tamayo and other political commissars of culture in the seventies, Felix Sanchez was one of the intellectuals who responded to the statement of Secretary of UNEAC trying to reduce the debate to the "revolutionary" and accused intellectuals from exile to "work for the enemy", manipulate and "take advantage" of the controversy.
"What have we come?" Who said that the debate must be between revolutionaries? "Those who are not, and do not necessarily have to be 'counter-jail them' are excluded," asked the writer. "What legal document authorizing such discrimination 'ideological', the deprivation of a citizen's right to argue about what is happening in your country? ".
His remarks addressed them in a message to the members of the Secretariat of the UNEAC. He had no answer.
Also during the controversy over the so-called "gray period" Felix Sanchez condemned the pressure that the vice president of the Cuban Book Institute, Fernando Jacomino, wanted to carry on the poet, novelist, essayist and editor Francis Sanchez, and empathized with it.
"There , terrible paradox, a 'low culture' deciding such a high culture of this country, "he said about it.
Francis Sanchez announced its renunciation of UNEAC in late January, without specifying the reasons. ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________
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