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 Daily news from the Canaries and the islands' biggest English language newspaper on-line Festival Mueca Street theatre threatened The governing alliance in Puerto de la Cruz is in the difficult position of having to decide where to cut spending in order to protect the council’s fragile economic situation.  There are three cultural attractions in the spotlight and possibly under the guillotine. One is Puerto’s Gay Week, an event introduced last year in an attempt to bring in the pink pound. The new ruling group has already announced it is no longer on the agenda. It was not a difficult decision and was probably taken for ideological and not economic reasons. However, the council has also suggested the need to omit the Ecological Cinema and Street Theatre festivals from this year’s cultural calendar. The decision is not at all ideological but based on a desperate need for cash at the town hall. It’s also a very easy decision to criticise. After all the street theatre festival is immensely popular, and has become a tradition which attracts thousands of visitors every year and would attract even more if properly publicised. Councillor Marrero argues that nobody is going to starve if the theatre is omitted temporarily, but that people will not receive salaries and will struggle to maintain families if funds are not found somewhere to fill the council’s cash box. Independent Socialist Councillor, Jaime Coello, believes it would be difficult to resuscitate the street theatre tradition in the future if it is forced to find another venue in these times of economic crisis. In other words, he thinks that omitting the crowd-pulling attraction in 2010 will cost Puerto dearly in the future. The council is also facing opposition from social sectors in Puerto which are using Facebook and street demonstrations to show their discontent against the possible elimination of both the street theatre and ecological cinema events. Faced with such strong opposition the new allies may well have to lick their wounds, put on a brave face and look for cash elsewhere. This article appears in the print edition 610 of Island Connections
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