I’ve been thinking about ways of seeing
It is said that “we do not look with our eyes but through our eyes,” and this is true even biologically. The eyes are our windows, but the structures that make vision possible originate in the depths of our brain.
That is why it is so necessary to think, to ask questions, to listen to others—especially when one holds power—because the exercise of power can change the way one sees.
Every country needs structures of power; that is not the problem. The problem lies in how those in power look at the people over whom they exercise authority.
One can look at the people as persons to be served, helped, and enabled to progress—people whose access to education, work, healthcare, and a dignified life should be facilitated.
But one can also look at the people as something to control, to subjugate—as tools to be placed at the service of those who govern, as pieces to be used for personal benefit and that of their own families.
Perhaps that is why, in Cuba, demonstrating is a crime. It is a crime to go out into the streets and protest the lack of food, medicine, water, and electricity. It is a crime to ask for freedom of expression and to demand the right to associate around different ideas and to create alternative political parties that can be chosen by the people.
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I’ve been thinking about ways of seeing
*Excarcelaciones en Semana Santa*
El periódico Trabajadores repite la retórica vacía: culpar a Estados Unidos y a la burocracia, mientras se aproxima el 22 Congreso de la CTC. Pero detrás de esas consignas, los obreros cubanos siguen atrapados en un sistema que no les ofrece ni sindicatos libres ni un mercado abierto donde puedan prosperar.