Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Councils of State and Ministers, insisted on Monday, during the first meeting after the IX Uneac Congress, the need to systematize and promote the principles of the cultural policy of the Revolution, and the role of institutions as true representatives of the creators to whom they are due.
The agenda addressed by writers and artists members of the presidency of the Uneac and members of the board of directors of the Ministry of Culture to follow up on the agreements adopted in that forum dealt with several of the problems identified during the Congress process, related to the compliance with cultural policy.
Among them are some inadequacies of the institutional system to direct, guide, control and execute the application of cultural policy, both in entities of the sector, and those derived from its relationship with the fields of education, tourism, the media and local subordination entities.
More than a dozen opinions were analyzed in the debate, which highlighted the necessary updating of the concepts of that policy in the current situation, one of which transits through the implementation of the improvement of the structure and operation of the Ministry of Culture, which should favor institutional efficiency.
It was recognized how the inadequate selection, suitability, training and preparation of part of the leaders has impact on the performance of the institutional system, due to ignorance of the specificities of the promotion and cultural management, and the lack of understanding and insensitivity to the social role of culture, which is accentuated at territorial and local level.