of the audience . We wanted to promote fun with responsibility and with respect for diversity and individuality . We wanted to encourage a culture of care of the ecosystem by placing garbage bins on the beach — marked for organic and recyclable stuff — and educating the public , all young people , about social welfare . We wanted to negotiate with the government how to install public toilets , to provide better food and to improve transportation . We even dream about setting up a stage at sea . Some plans were executed , others not , and certainly carrying out others would be very difficult , but who can guess if they would have materialized after all . On the contrary , what did the official institutions bring out ? Bad organization , bad design , bad performance . They couldn ´ t meet the youth expectations . They told us that our project was not governmental and the festival was being running with funds of dubious origin . Some other improbable excuses were given . It is worth emphasizing that we were doing everything with approval by the Provincial Government and the rest of the relevant authorities . How to hide such an event ? But in a snap of fingers , Rotilla Festival ceased to belong to us . It would be organized by specialists , by cadres , by men and women with no sense of belonging , no good intentions , no taste for alternative culture , no love for young people , no interest , no goals . MatraKa Productions called a press conference . Only a few foreign media came . This time , the conference was controlled by the State Security from the lowest floor of the head office building . We signed a complaint in which we canceled our event and we required both a response and fulfilling what was promised . In addition , we announced that our demand was based on identity theft by the Cuban government . We just run through the facts , the vulgar way in which they informed us that the festival would be organized by official institutions . We requested online support and made documentaries . 3 There was neither response nor respect . They failed to comply with their pledged word . They only forcibly complied with their own terms . Divide and conquer . It was sad and frustrating to see artists who badly judged us and turned their backs , who joined the new proposal even though we were the only ones who , out of a basic sense of respect and in search of reciprocity , gave them detailed explanations . We tried to justify their attitudes by broaching the lack of funding , because now they would be paid for their performances , but principles are priceless . We tried to justify their vulnerability with the thirst for fame and public , and the need to have their ego fed , but the sense of shame requires spirit of sacrifice . Many of those who previously asked for a space in Rotilla and started their careers there , as well as in other events organized by MTK , attended the fake festival and even spoke in front of the cameras on national TV , as if that plagiarism would have been the best idea drawn up by the Ministry of Culture ( MINCULT ) for the youth in the summer . Others were deceived and thought they were attending a famous festival . They did not know us , and they thanked Rotilla on the fraudulent scene . We do not hold a grudge . It ’ s is called deception . I thank the loyal audiences and artists who responded . I wish they have done very well in their careers . We continued to support them as we could . For them , we continued working on other impact events and large audiences that no longer exist . Nobody filled these cultural gaps . Electronic music — with more luck and less social commitment — has occasionally gained some ground for projects that strive to remain , I think by overcoming setbacks with gasping breaths . Hip hop and other art
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