HAVANA, Cuba.- All these years of Castroism in power have served, among other things, to convince us that here they act through campaigns, and after a certain time, sometimes without having achieved the proposed objective, the matter passes to a background, or is simply forgotten. Another variant of this lack of systematicity to solve the problems that affect society is the prolonged time that these anomalies are lived with, waiting for a campaign devised from “above” that intends to put an end to these wrongs.
Let’s look at some examples that testify to the above.
The giant african snail It is a mollusk of proven danger to human health. Before the coronavirus pandemic, official propaganda spared no effort to alert the population about the presence of this mollusk, and offered advice for its elimination. Today we no longer talk about the giant African snail. This despite the fact that the mollusk is still present in grasslands, outdoor garbage dumps and roads where the population must travel.
And speaking of garbage dumps, the call of the authorities has declined in order to eradicate those places where the garbage exceeds the collection tanks, forming a real landfill that also threatens people’s health. There was a time when schedules were set for the population to deposit their solid waste, but everything seems to be a thing of the past. Now total disorder reigns with regard to the deposit and collection of garbage.
Another issue that seems to have receded into the background in the official discourse is that related to saving water. This is a recommendation that should be permanent, and not wait for the dry period (November-April) to insist on it.
We are referring to a phenomenon that is not only criticized by the population and other independent voices, but even the authorities themselves have had to join the chorus.
In recent days, for example, during a tour of social works in the Havana municipality of Playa, the first secretary of the Communist Party in Havana, Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, called attention to the fact that many of the problems that were being solved now , such as water leaks, potholes and closed establishments, had been in these conditions for a long time, which caused people to feel uneasy. In that sense the official pointed that “we have become accustomed to seeing these things, we have to get out of the habit, resolve why the abnormal cannot be seen as normal”.
Obviously, there is an acceptance that government inertia had prevented the solution of many of the problems that affect these communities. And that now, in the context of the campaign orchestrated from the highest spheres of power, they were trying to solve them.
And of course, for a country that moves due to the campaigns carried out by the ruling class, this time could not be the exception. Of course, now the campaign is woven around the referendum on September 25, with a view to the definitive approval of the Family Code. All the media, controlled by the ruling party, urge a YES vote in this popular consultation.
The latest development regarding the referendum is that the postmen-messengers who distribute the press to subscribers, at least in the town of Santiago de las Vegas, informed their clients that there will be no newspapers for them in September. And although they did not inform the reason for that measure, it is not difficult to imagine that the next printing of thousands and thousands of copies of the Code – another government decision to guarantee the positive vote – will take away a good part of the paper that exists in the country.
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