Havana Cuba. – In social networks A report with chronic overtones written by Yarini Manuel Arrebola, a professor at the University of Havana, who was the victim of an attempted robbery with force on a P11 bus, which covers the Vedado-Alamar route, has gone viral.
In the post, along with a photo of his knife-cut backpack, the author describes the desperate situation of Cuban professionals and the country in general, drowning in a crisis that is already humanitarian and of humanity, more than economic. It was not long, in fact, for the teacher himself to be injured in the attack. He was saved by bag padding and various student exams.
The text, bitter for its veracity, exposes the Way of the Cross who must get up at dawn, five hours before, to arrive on time for the class shift that corresponds to him. Since long before the situation, Donald Trump and COVID-19, university professors have not had transportation; reality that has forced them into a miserable and self-destructive routine that, without a doubt, negatively affects the number of professionals willing to practice teaching.
With irony and parsimony, Yarini Manuel Arrebola laments the loss of a backpack that has cost him two or three times his salary, and he does not even feel up to explaining how it is possible to finish his working day at two in the afternoon and arrive at his home at ten at night, after more than seven hours waiting in line for the bus and the trip to Alamar.
On many occasions, the professor has risked his life to meet his students and arrive at the University on time. The most recent, according to his post, was last week, when he had to travel for almost a kilometer, hooked to the door of the bus, and leaning on one foot along with other Cubans who, like him, had to get to work. at all costs.
“If this takes a pothole and kills me, then the university does put the bus right away for the teachers,” he thought. But she is wrong. His situation does not matter to the dean of the faculty where he teaches, nor to the rector, nor to the minister of higher education, nor to the mass of paunches that flourish between abundant dishes and air-conditioned cars, while the professionals of this country are exposed to to be stabbed by a pickpocket who missed the hit, or to be crushed to death by the double wheels of an articulated bus.
Not even the death of millions of Cubans will remove the consciences of those who long ago agreed to the extinction of this people. It was a decision made without remorse, probably in the middle of a table talk, and seasoned with the conviction that it is the best for them and their families.
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