Spanish singer Joan Manuel Serrat and the Brazilian tribe Mundurukú were awarded this Tuesday (November 8) with the International Prize for the Struggle for Human Rights and Solidarity, awarded by the Mario Benedetti Foundation, in Uruguay.
In accordance with this, the Board of Directors has unanimously decided that the 2022 edition will deliver two awards, as reported at the press conference.
“Thanks to his magnificent musicalizations of poets we have known much better Miguel Hernández, Antonio Machado, León Felipe, joint work with our beloved Mario Benedetti“Council member Diane Denoir pointed out about Serrat.
Furthermore, he pointed out the “consistent defense of just causes” Y the “resistance to Francoism” of an “essential artist” who stably “brought the injustices of the world to the fore”.
On the other hand, he highlighted the Mundurukú tribe and observed it it “resists with great courage the invasions of the loggers who cut down the trees of its territory “.
“The Mundurukú have organized themselves to face and resist these invasions. First of all, since 2006 they have started a process of demarcation of their territory in front of all the official institutions, so that the lands that belong to them are made official “, explained Denoir.
In addition, he said that at this time the tribe has a group of indigenous young women “who have learned to use a camera to record and to reclaim that demarcated territory and to spread their project to revitalize the Mundurukú language on social media “.
Finally, Denoir announced that the awards it will be delivered on November 21 in Montevideo.
The recognition of the Mario Benedetti Foundation was awarded for the first time in 2013 to the American activist of Lakota origin Leonard Peltier.
The jurist Mariana Mota, the professor Belela Herrera, the teacher Miguel Soler, the Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, the Nicaraguan poet Ernesto Cardenal, the journalist Guillermo Chifflet, the Chilean poet and activist Raúl Zurita and the Movement of Victims of Crimes of the State of Colombia.
Homage from Rosario to Negro Fontanarrosa
And speaking of awards, a few days ago -Friday 4-, the singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat inaugurated in the city of Santa Fe di Rosario a walk that bears his name and that of his great Argentine friend, the late writer and cartoonist Roberto “Negro” Fontanarrosalocated at the corner of the mythical bar El Cairo where “two hearts that have always lived together” meet, he said.
“I never thought we could meet on an afternoon like todayin the midst of so many people and a lot of affection, forming a corner with my dear friend Roberto Fontanarrosa, with whom I was lucky enough to share spaces of life, fantasies, joys, dreams and above all to have fun with him “, Serrat said, a few hours before starting his Argentine farewell tour there, he called the vice of singing.
The act was at the intersection of the streets Santa Fe and Sarmiento, in what now it is called Serrat-Fontanarrosa cornerright in front of the Cairo bar, where the so-called Galan tableironic name of Rosario’s group of friends led by Fontanarrosa, which Serrat once joined.
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