I’ve been thinking about realities that make me think. This reality I am living is happening after 60 plus years of communism in Cuba.
Ever since we made the mistake of letting ourselves be seduced by the word “Revolution,” we have learned to live with countless situations: scarcity, hunger, helplessness, repression, fear, frustration…
We have become experts at adapting to everything, and maybe that is why now we are learning so easily to live with death.
We are dying. Cuba has become an island of rotting streets, where garbage piles up shamelessly, and from those filthy streets a multitude of diseases—so avoidable and yet so transmissible—has spread. Dengue, Zika, chikungunya, arboviruses… what does it matter? But the reality is this: people are dying, many people are dying, in silence, in anonymity, under our impotent gaze—already accustomed to everything—and also under the apathy and inaction of a Government that takes care only of itself, a Government that has nothing to offer and no longer cares to offer anything.
And I think: how have we allowed our souls to be emptied so much that not even death itself pushes us to look for a definitive way out of this nightmare? How can we accept with such passivity the suffering of those we love—those we see suffering before our eyes because they do not even have a basic pain reliever? How can we so calmly accept the death of our loved ones while we wait for a solution from those who neither can nor care to provide one?
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I’ve been thinking about realities that make me think. This reality I am living is happening after 60 plus years of communism in Cuba.
Un día el rostro en la pantalla fue el del poeta Armando Valladares, luego vinieron los ataques en el horario estelar de la noche contra Martha Beatriz Roque, Elizardo Sánchez y Dagoberto Valdés, hasta llegó el momento en que vi mi propio nombre en el noticiero rodeado de los peores adjetivos y, ahora, le ha tocado el turno a los editores de El Toque y al economista Pavel Vidal. La hoguera de la lapidación mediática y del fusilamiento de la reputación, que necesita mantener ardiendo el régimen, está urgida de leña, de nueva leña para agregar al fuego del victimismo oficial y a esas llamas que buscan echar a otros las culpas del fracaso del modelo cubano.
El Consejo para la Transición Democrática en Cuba (CTDC) espera poder tomar contacto con la Relatora Especial y compartir con su delegación nuestra visión sobre el tema.