Architect Niemeyer against US Blockade

Rio 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.