I have been thinking that it is time to lift our heads.
It is no secret to anyone that, as a result of the recent events in Venezuela, hope has surged that a radical change might occur in Cuba, one that would allow the end of the dictatorship and the beginning of an era of democracy and prosperity.
However, along with hope, fear has taken root in the hearts of many Cubans. A fear that is fed by the uncertainty of not knowing what will happen or how—but not only by that.
I believe that, as a people, we are also afraid of change. Cuba is a disaster, but it is “our” disaster, one in which we have learned how to move and adapt to and how to survive.
We know how and where to find food, how to get what we need for the house, where to look for medicines. We have learned to deal with blackouts; we know how to protect ourselves from repression, how to take care in the face of growing violence… And we have learned to “disconnect” from situations that should worry us but that we learn to handle because we live in a state of survival, automatically we move into the background— we adapt unhappily to such things as the increasingly deficient education of our children, or their lack of a future. We live sunk in the night, but we have learned to feel safe in our darkness.
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I have been thinking that it is time to lift our heads.
Comencemos por identificar los principales obstáculos que se nos presentan para alcanzar el futuro que Cuba merece: