The XXIX edition of the Festival of the Caribbean in Santiago de Cuba, will be held in the month of July and will be dedicated to the Central American country of Honduras, as guest of honour and in particular to their garifuna culture, which has strong afro Caribbean roots.

The inhabitants of the Honduran coast have African origins, came from the arch of the Caribbean and are the expression of a wide trans cultural process and a synthesis between black and American Indian roots, which origins are in the San Vicente island, from where they where expelled by the British colonialists, in the XVIII and those survivors, after a long resistance, being deported to the Roatan island (in Honduras), made of this Central American land their home, although they also expanded to other Central American countries, such as Nicaragua, Belice and Guatemala.