As many as a million people from all over Cuba gathered in Havana, in the Revolutionary square, to partake in a musical celebration of peace. According to BBC, this is the largest open air concert since the 1959 revolution, and more people turned up for this event than did for Pope John Paul II's open air mass in 1998. Juanes, a Colombian pop-singer, who organized the "Peace without Borders" concert, received death-threats from Cubans in Miami who oppose the Cuban regime, but from within Cuba itself, he found much support. Barack Obama also spoke in support of the concert, though was careful not to "overstate the degree that (these kinds of cultural exchanges) helps".
By: Jessica Bilstein
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