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Kenny posted an update 8 years, 9 months ago
We have Churches from the 16th century that are in bad shape. The Music Conservatory and the School of arts received budget cuts. High Culture sacrifice for the debt gods.
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
Who owns the churches, the diocese?
Some of the Churches at least two of them are now museums (public assets) others are owned by the Church. They are scattered around the Island, but they are super old 16th century etc. Nothing is what it seems here Dana, you see an old decrepit structure and is from the 17th century.
Plus the art works, we have paintings done by local artists dating back to the 17th century, lots of (Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus) and some paintings of Governors and battles from that era. Those are in public museums and god knows in what State they are in. The other collections are from the Baroque era but they are in a Private Museum, is the largest baroque collection in the Americas. Other stuff is more modern like The Flaming June is on that collection.
So much criticism about the poor condition of historic buildings in Cuba. But as far as I know Castro was NOT the president of Puerto Rico
True Cuba always gets a bad wrap don’t know about their historic buildings but I can assure you their education is way better than the Progressivist Multiple Choice treatment we got here. Dana our culture is AT STAKE ! This is what happens when you reduce culture to flag, food, dance, music and Progressivist Ideas. WE ARE LOOSING OUR HISTORY, OUR CULTURE AND OUR MINDS !
Whatever ideas you may have about Puerto Rico culture, they are probably 99.9 % wrong. This is not a Caribbean Culture, Latino Culture, Spanish Culture, American Culture or what have you. This is a WESTERN CULTURE, 500 years of it !
We are victims of our own stupidity and bad policy’s from Washington. It all started in the 90’s when by the stroke of a pen Bill Clinton signed those free trade agreements and we lost 150,000 jobs. This island has become a True Pirates of the Caribbean free trade zone, everything gets in and local industries going down the tubes. I am really frustrated !