A concerto against the Maduro regime

Gabriela Montero says:

You are making my point for me. My country has been living a hellish humanitarian crisis for over two decades, and I have insisted on using my voice on behalf of the voiceless, rather than promoting myself or my career. I have zero interest in talking about music while most of my country languishes in obscene poverty. Once and for all, I have all the career I want and need, and couldn’t care less if I never play another concert again as long as this barbaric regime holds my country hostage, and the classical music industry continues to defend it, still worse, profit from it. You say more about yourself in your assumptions than you do about me. You demonstrate your own broken moral compass by attacking one of the very few Venezuelan artists who has not only refused to be bought by the regime, but fights for a future for children far beyond the fleeting opportunity to play in a propaganda orchestra throughout developed nations. You attack the very person trying for two decades to restore democracy to Venezuela for the good of all citizens, knowing full well the career sacrifices involved in taking that position. But once again, I have no interest whatsoever in putting my career before my people. This is your projection, as someone who either knows nothing of my work, or supports Latin-American left-wing dictatorships and wishes to tarnish my reputation for daring to oppose them. Fortunately, the truth is now out. Not a single reasonable, informed, morally healthy human being can continue to support this regime, or its cynical deployment of child musicians to promote its ideology among gullible ideologues in the Northern Hemisphere. In our world, doing the right thing seems to come with a hefty price, exacted by people like you. But, as the great Nina Simone said, “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times. I choose to reflect the times in which I find myself. That is my duty.”