Architect Niemeyer against US BlockadeRio de Janeiro, Jan 25 (Prensa Latina) Famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer will design a monument against the 40-year-long US blockade on Cuba to be built in a specially selected square in Havana.
Marilia Guimaraes, president of the Committee in Defense of Humanity and against Terrorism in Rio de Janeiro, announced that the 98-year-old communist architect remains active and will design a statue showing a tiger with its mouth open and a man fighting it raising the Cuban flag.
Marilia is in Havana to present Cuban President Fidel Castro with a replica of the monument and said Niemeyer was very pleased at Fidel Castro´s great reception of his work.
Niemeyer has also decided to design the square in Havana to hold the sculpture condemning the aggressive blockade on Cuba and paying homage to the Cuban fight against it.
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