Part of the Cuba government facilitated Saturday 26th November 2022 meeting, between myself and the son and 3 female relatives of the last living Taino Chief in Cuba - Kasike Panchito of Caridad de los Indios. The Translator is my actor - Francisco Santamaria Cubilla - who played the role of the Spanish Conquistador Diego Velazquez - hence he is wearing the Conquistador armor from my film, which we also donated to the Matachin Museum in Baracoa, Cuba.
He wanted to apologize to them for the evils inflicted upon them by the Spanish conquistadores of the 15th & 16th centuries because not all Spaniards supported the conquest of the Americas, there were even then - voices of reason and justice who opposed the wickedness of the Spanish colonization.
I told him this would be a fitting gesture since he played the role of the Spanish Conquistador of Cuba - Diego Velazquez, in my Guama movie, and here we were, in the very Spanish Fort (now converted into the Matachin Museum in Baracoa), that Chief Guama laid siege to more than once, in the very year of the 500th anniversary of the start of Chief Guama's 10-year long guerrilla war and rebellion against Spain.
After this spiritually important ceremonial apology, we donated the same Conquistador's suit of armor he used in the movie (which you see him wearing here) - to the Matachin Museum, for the government and People of Cuba.
NOTHING can erase the evils of the past, but we can ALL do SOMETHING to begin to lay the foundation for a more noble future between us. When we find right-thinking souls anywhere in humanity - we must embrace them as our spiritual brothers, or the flower of justice can never bloom from the ashes of injustice.
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