Central America Counts Begins with a Plea for the Freedom of Joan Manuel Serrat’s Hand: “Against Any Censorship and in Favor of Freedoms”

Central America Counts begins with a plea for the freedom of Joan Manuel Serrat’s hand: “Against any censorship and in favor of freedoms” The writer Sergio Ramírez, winner of the Cervantes Prize, opens the most important festival of literature and journalism in the region together with the Catalan songwriter under the premise of the defense of democracy “in hard times” By: Carlos S. Maldonado-El Pais Counts Joan Manuel Serrat that upon returning…

Guatemala City, Guatemala. Spanish singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat defended migration by saying that “it is no problem,” in Guatemala during the Central American literary festival. “I must confess that it is impossible for me to understand immigration as a problem. I believe that immigration is no problem, it is the problem that causes immigration,” Serrat said during a dialogue with Nicaraguan writer and former vice president Sergio Ramíre…

Joan Manuel Serrat says that when he returned to Spain from exile in Mexico in the mid-1970s of the last century he feared that when he landed a whole police operation he would wait to put him with his bones in cold dungeons. But nothing happened. Yes, there were police, but what he found was a warm reception of followers and the return home. He had been out of fear and with his torments, unable to create, and at that moment he thought if all th…

The Casa Amèrica Barcelona Foundation has announced the award to Joan Manuel Serrat of the seventh prize KM 13,774 for “drawing with the lyrics and music of their songs the linguistic and geographical boundaries between Catalonia and America” and thus building “a giant link, full of affections and sustained in time”, according to the statement released by the entity.Continue reading...