
I have been thinking about the signs of death and of hope in Cuba
I have the feeling that, for our people, the transition from 2025 to 2026 has been an emotionally contradictory moment and, at the same time, a comprehensibly logical one.
We leave behind a year marked by signs of death that have not only been with us for a long time but have intensified throughout the year that has ended: the death of light, of hygiene in the streets, of public health, of a dignified life, of adequate food… the death of freedom, of joy, of the desire to live on this land.
But these deaths seem to have given new life to hope. Never before have we been a people so sunk, so bound hand and foot, and so repressed; and never before have we begun a year with the hope that this nightmare will end. Never before have we greeted one another on the last night of December wishing that this would be THE YEAR: the year of freedom, the year of change.
It is true that we do not know what it might look like. Certainly, we do not expect change to arise from the country’s ruling spheres. Nearly seventy years ago, a family took control of the nation and has run it like its personal estate, aided by those whom that family chose and those to whom it decided to grant power—a power that, however, it keeps under control, to withdraw whenever it wishes.
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transmitidas por mosquitos, como el dengue, el zika o el chikungunya, en un contexto de deterioro social y sanitario—, con su carga de muertes evitables, discapacidades y sufrimiento social, constituye la expresión más visible y contundente de ese fracaso.
La Comisión Electoral del Consejo para la Transición Democrática en Cuba (CTDC) dio a conocer este sábado los resultados generales de las elecciones para integrar la nueva Ejecutiva del organismo, correspondiente al período 2026–2028.