Maduro announces the World Salsa Festival in Caracas for June 11

Venezuela will host the World Salsa Festival from June 11 to 15, which will be held in Caracas, reported this Monday the president of the Caribbean country, Nicholas Maduroduring the visit to the presidential palace of Miraflores by the Puerto Rican singer Maelo Ruiz.

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“We are going to make a great festival of salsa, salsa brava, romantic salsa, modern salsa. (…) June 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Festival Mundial de la Salsa Caracas 2022″, the president announced during a broadcast on the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

#4Apr | Nicolás Maduro received this Monday night at the Miraflores Palace the salsa singer Maelo Ruiz.

He took advantage of the occasion to inform that Caracas will host the World Salsa Festival, which will take place from June 11 at the Poliedro. pic.twitter.com/TNkXbIrGDC

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Later, Maduro, who was also accompanied by the Venezuelan singer Omar Enrique, asked that the “salsero heart (…) be invited to the festival, a movement that has boys, girls, young people, dancers, musicians who play instruments, (that) they sing”.

#4Apr | Nicolás Maduro receives the salsa singer Maelo Ruiz at the Miraflores Palace. pic.twitter.com/OJdxecBr8I

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Enrique, appointed by the president, in January 2020, as president of the Corazón Merenguero movement, said that the festival will be held in “El Poliedro de Caracas” and that it will begin on June 11, on the occasion of “International Salsa Day”. .

“We are living in a new time, really the number of shows that have begun to move in the country is something incredible. The biggest international artists have come to play in our country in the last month (…) the number of concerts by international artists that come to our country is incredible,” said Enrique.

In this sense, Maduro assured that “(the artists) are fighting to come to Venezuela.”

On April 1, the Sin Bandera duo and the Camila band, both Mexicans, confirmed that they will perform on June 15 at the Poliedro de Caracas.

Source: Elcomercio

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