Volume 6 Number 2 August 2006

> CUBA'S CULTURE MINISTER
~ "Department of Whatever It Takes" ~
Abel Prieto, in an interview with Jon Lee Anderson (New Yorker magazine, July 31, 2006, page 53) said,

"The appetite for culture, the social prestige of the artist, of the intellectual, of the writer, has grown enormously [since 2003]. There was a time when parents thought that the arts would turn their sons into gays, or their daughters into sluts, but now everyone wants to have an artist in the family."