Plenty has been mentioned in the press and by bloggers on last Sunday’s "Peace without Borders" concert in Cuba. We’ll leave the last word, however, with well-known Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez. Sanchez attended the concert and though she admitted that “the Juanes concert will not have significantly changed our lives” she also expressed hope that there can be (as Juanes said) a “Cuba libre!”:
If we see the performance of this September 20th as the dress rehearsal for a concert we'll have one day, then we must congratulate those who participated. Even if there isn't another, and the Plaza again takes on its solemnity and grayness, at least this Sunday afternoon we live something different. In a place where the division between us has been systematically sown, Juanes--to the setting of the sun--has shouted, "For one Cuban family!"Image- CBC (“Hundreds of thousands gather at Revolution Square in Havana for the Peace Without Borders concert..”)
Online Sources- Reuters Video, The Latin Americanist, Wikipedia, Huffington Post
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