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Estilo Criollo, agrupación danzaria argentina con sede en la ciudad de Bariloche, actuando en Bariay, sitio del encuentro entre dos culturas.
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Eduardo Ávila Rumayor, director de la Casa de Iberoamérica.

The Fiesta has served to dialogue, to find ourselves on the same scenes of five hundred and twenty-five years ago, with a projection that does not reach either end. Nor does it become a mediating option that tries to sweeten, as many have said, either of the two visions, or specifically the option of conquest.
That dialogue that has been imposed over these twenty-five years of the house seeks, among all things, to understand the meaning of both processes, because in principle all the genocide that was committed with the conquest is recognized: it would be illogical and absurd to deny that, and all what not only the devastation of the aboriginal population meant, but also its environmental impact, the subordination that in terms of development generated and continues to generate for the continent. But there is also a vision that shows or demonstrates that from this continent we also contributed to transform that Europe that conquered us, because many things were assimilated: products, cultures, words, ways of life, a great deal of cultural issues that are not few and sometimes they fail to mention, a legacy that has been transmitted from this continent to Europe, especially Spain, England and Portugal, which are the main colonizing nations.
The Fiesta, and the Casa de Iberoamérica in particular, have allowed that dialogue to flourish, that despite all the differences that have limited the development of our region, they continue to understand each other to build a new vision that has to do with a new relationship, with a focus from culture, without ignoring any of the two variants or looking for midpoints that reflect fragility or permissibility, but pursuing, from that effort, an understanding of what we are today.
The issue of local development is not a unique issue for Cuba. There are experiences of local development in many parts of America, especially progressive projects that seek to strengthen their models and their political projects from that vision.
With regard to cultural industries, we are talking about the need to democratize the concept of cultural industries, and that the value of local heritage in all its meanings appears within it