MIAMI, United States. — A sculptural complex located in front of a military school in Havana has gone viral in recent days, causing memes and ridicule from Cubans inside and outside the island.
The work, which represents the fingers of a hand coming out of the ground, was placed in the roundabout located at the entrance of the Morro-Cabaña Military Prevention School, which mobilizes young recruits from the Active Military Service (SMA).
In the center of the roundabout stands a red beret, which represents the squadrons of the same name, subordinate to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba (FAR).
Judging by the reactions of netizens, the monument seems not to capture the original idea of its authors. For this reason, where a hand coming out of the earth was conceived, the Cubans seem to see something else.
It is not the first time that the Cuban regime erects monuments similar to the one located in front of the Morro-Cabaña Military Prevention School.
In January of last year a sculptural work in honor of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro Ruz, it was inaugurated in the community of La Parra, in the province of Cienfuegos.
It is a giant imitation of the right arm of the Castro boss holding a pencil in his hand. According to the official newspaper Granma, the sculptural complex where the arm was placed pays homage to Castro’s visit to that town in Cienfuegos in 1969.
The sculptor and UNEAC member Juan García Cruz, the artist in charge of the project, defined the work as “an energetic arm that emerges from the earth, whose half-open hand holds a pencil that will draw dreams come true over the years, and in the olive-green sleeve bears the rank of Commander-in-Chief, pointing all to the southwest.”
