VALVERDE (THE IRON), 8 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The plenary session of the Cabildo de El Hierro declared itself this Monday, unanimously, in favor of valuing the El Hierro whistle as a cultural asset of maximum interest for the Canary Islands while denouncing the “discriminatory treatment” that the declaration file has suffered of BIC, which has resulted in the approval of an institutional declaration and the proposal to draft a manifesto against its slowdown.
The different spokespersons expressed their disagreement with the administrative pitfalls found in their declaration as BIC by the Government of the Canary Islands and valued the work carried out by the association of the Herreño whistle in favor of the conservation of this heritage whose existence and permanence is endorsed by different experts and solvent organizations in the knowledge of the whistled language and its manifestations in the Canary Islands.
In such a way that the Plenary, meeting on an ordinary basis, approved an institutional declaration endorsed by all the groups with representation in the Cabido de El Hierro with which it requests the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands to initiate and promote the procedure for the declaration of the Herreño whistle as an Asset of Cultural Interest of an Intangible Character with regional scope. ·
Likewise, it is proposed that the Herreño town hall itself appear as an interested party in the procedure processed by the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands for the declaration of the Gomeran whistle as an Intangible Asset of Cultural Interest with regional scope.
The declaration also agrees that the Cabildo of El Hierro promote the drafting of a public manifesto that, headed by the political organizations of the island and the associations that make up the community that carries the El Hierro whistle, expresses “the discriminatory treatment of almost three years that the file, as well as detailing the consequences of ignoring during that time this relevant cultural aspect of our identity as a people, in order to make it reach the Government of the Canary Islands through the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage”.
