Dominican Republic receives a UNESCO certificate accrediting bachata as a World Heritage

Dominican Republic receives a UNESCO certificate accrediting bachata as a World Heritage. The permanent delegation of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (Unesco) received this Friday the official delivery by that Organization of the certification that inscribes the music and dance of the Dominican Bachata, on the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The ceremony began at 11:00 in the morning, through the Zoom platform and was attended by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Miguel Vargas Maldonado, genre interpreters, Unesco officials, as well as family and friends of Víctor Víctor. In this sense, Ernesto Ottone, deputy director-general of Unesco for the Culture Sector, after giving his speech, stressed that “this has been a very special occasion, for us it was very significant to integrate bachata in the representative list of Cultural Heritage Immaterial of Humanity.”