Havana Cuba. – Asking the Cuban people to “put heart” into what they do to get ahead is a mockery, it is a great offense. But he couldn’t think of a better phrase for a totalitarian regime that, like all its equals, either lacks imagination, common sense, empathy or, on the contrary, overflows with evil.
Although a very unfortunate slogan, they repeat it as if to cement the idea that things are going very badly because we don’t put effort into it and not because, as Miguel Díaz-Canel himself said“we are salaos”, which is the greatest truth said by him publicly, as there is no worse “salación” for a country than allowing the communists to govern as they please, suppressing individual liberties and human rights, criminalizing any type of opposition or political demonstration.
“Put a heart on Cuba” is a motto that tries to ignore how much heart and how much blood it has cost Cuban men and women to pawn their lives in a foreign dream that they once called “Revolution” and “Socialism”, but that today is revealed to all You look like an infinite nightmare, a great deception for which no one apologizes or apologizes.
On the contrary, they throw us in the face that they are “continuity” of what failed, of what we hate, of what makes us flee leaving our loved ones behind, of what has been more than proven that it does not work nor will it work. ever, with which they are barely telling us that deception will continue as a “method of government” and generalized poverty as the preferred formula of social control.
A society silenced for a long time, like the Cuban one, is a society where hearts stop beating, a society that dies because blood stops running through its veins, and the blood of a healthy society is, fundamentally, freedom of expression, diversity and spontaneous citizen participation.
Cuban men and women, in this more than half century of dictatorship, have committed more than their hearts. If not, ask the mothers who lost their children in the stupid wars in Angola, the Congo, Ethiopia… or those who once saw them jump into the sea on a raft never to see them alive again. To the mothers and fathers who every night, instead of sleeping with their children, must spend the early morning in one of the many queues for food or even in the tourist’s bed, those two places of the “daily struggle” where one survives but also where the hearts, dignity and hopes of ordinary Cubans are consumed.
Let us also ask ourselves, each one of us, whether we live “inside” or “outside”, how much we have lost, materially and spiritually, in our effort to emerge unscathed from these annihilating machines that are populist dictatorships. How did we escape or “adapt” to them? What did we do and remain silent to go unnoticed? Who do we betray to appear “innocent”, “integrated”, “trustworthy”? How much fidelity do we fake? Over the heads and hearts of how many friends, neighbors and family members do we rise up and then jump and fly over the waters pretending that we are blameless or that adversity justifies everything?
They forced us to pawn our hearts when we threw eggs and stones at those who were leaving Cuba, when we asked for prison and firing squads for those who thought and acted with their own heads and hearts, when we chose to parade like zombies in the square and swear allegiance to the Communist Party instead of to be faithful to our children, to our family blood, to our ancestors. When, against our deepest desires, we renounced our dreams for the whims of a madman who, making us believe with false promises that he embodied the “fatherland”, made us shout “Socialism or Death” when there was still something in our hearts life, of humanity and not this lack of love that consumes us.
I really believe that Cubans, after more than half a century of confinement and fear —with the tremendous madness that these unleash—, we no longer have hearts left to bet on, not even for ourselves. And they, the bosses, who to get to where they have left much more than their hearts along the way, know well that their demand to “put heart” in things is nothing more than a simple empty phrase, generated from chubby fat bellies although also from minds and breasts totally empty of kindness.
Observing our situation from the perspective to which an economy and a political system that today are based exclusively on the looting of the pockets of emigration, exile, and exile, there is no other way of understanding it other than from the violence of dismemberment, physical and spiritual. So asking us to “put our hearts into it” is in a certain way an act of hypocrisy, if not pure sarcasm. Because, furthermore, you cannot pawn again what has already been pawned.
Possibly today we are millions of Cuban men and women living without a heart in their chest, or at least with one that has been badly damaged by misfortunes, frustrations, despair, disappointments. a heart of Removableof fantasy, the one that we leave stored —or forgotten— in a drawer of the shop window, of the night table when we go out to the street, abroad, to the tail of the chicken, to fight for survival.
A heart that we put on again only for those occasions, so rare, when faith returns to us in the reality of a definitive change, when the end of this hell we feel close and possible.
So they don’t want us to bet our battered hearts on that same claque that once made us sick, on those demons that destroyed us with so much hate, fear and despair.
Cuba’s problems, so serious and old, are no longer solved with empty phrases, with silly campaigns on social networks, with ridiculous reports about a Marianao that does not exist, which has only seen prosperity in the wave of memes and jokes that it continues to generate. Moreover, not even our problems will end with all the money in the world until the dictatorship that bleeds us all to death ends, even when we think that far away and unaware we will be safe.
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