The International Book Fair of Venezuela (Filven) has been, during its eleven editions now, a cultural and entertaining experience for the Venezuelan people, offering a wide variety of activities which produce excitement in the people attending. Once the schedule of activities for this year was announced, many popeyed people read the name of none other than Danny Rivera, who was invited to give a concert along with Eric Landron and the Philarmonic Orchestra of Caracas in the Teresa Carreño Theater, to present his most recent book and disc in honor to the commander, titled “Chávez de amor y lluvia” (Chavez of Love and Rain). The announcement produced the mobilization of a swarm of people, fans from several decades of Rivera’s son, who ran to get the tickets to the concert which, at a very reasonable price, would allow them having the privilege to sing together with their idol, under the perfect acustics of the José Félix Ribas Hall, the usual hits, and also the new ones, composed to express gratitude to Chavez, for having always expressed in his speeches the struggle for the Puerto Rican independence, of which Rivera and Landron make active part. Thursday night, when the cold wind of a late and rare winter in tropical lands fell upon the opened spaces of the 2015 Filven, the atmosphere recovered warmth as hundreds of excited hearts gathered in the framework of the fair to listen to the combatant verses vindicating the Latin American feature of Puerto Rico, as well as the need to have the island united in one single chorus for the battle that this continent has endlessly fought against the imperial interference, to be free to conduct its destiny obeying just to that warm and lovely nature of its people, who aspire to live in a world where the only king would be the human being and not Capitalism, which empties the soul in the pursuit of material wealth. In this way, with this expecting audience, keen to share a memorable night, the first chords of this monumental concert were heard. A concert organized by the 2015 Filven for the Venezuelan people’s enjoyment.
