Havana Cuba. – The Letters to the address of Granmawhich appear on Fridays —until recently they occupied two pages— in the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), always remind me of an old song by Doris Day: that of that fifteen-year-old who, to pretend nonexistent romances, she wrote letters to herself.
The meek coincidence of the senders with the official vision is too much. Even when they complain and claim —for the months-long wait for a resolution for the delivery of idle land, for the incomplete and delayed payment of a pension, for the overflow of sewage— or when they criticize. In short, criticism is never that strong. Rather, from so much that they insist on their “fidelity and trust in the revolution” they are pathetic.
But even more surprising because of their unconditional love for the chains and the masters, are the comments left by some oafs on cubadebate and official blogs. One wonders if these people, more than loyal, submissive, who rarely sign their letters with their full name —generally they just put the last name preceded by the initial letter of the name, or simply a diminutive— exist, are real, flesh and blood. bone, and they suffer as much hunger and vicissitudes as we do, because their opinions, so complacent with the regime, so in agreement with everything that the bosses have, have nothing to do with those that are heard, daily and at all times, anywhere .
From which laboratory will these masochistic sluts come out? What materials will have been used to make them? Could they have been raised —oh, Juan Formell— with the stick compote?
When I see how they direct their salvo shots to create states of opinion in pursuit of government interests, it seems to me that most of the senders of the letters and messages to the Granma already cubadebate they write to order, they act as captive balloons (never better used the term!) that explore the environment and test their strength to see how far the population is willing to endure the next squeeze or if a little ballast needs to be released to get it to refloat and the olive green balloon rises even a little, which is struck out but has not just deflated at once.
It is worrying that in recent months many of the authors of the letters to the newspaper Granma and the comments in cubadebate they begin to vehemently advocate the death penalty to stop the heinous murders that are occurring more and more frequently in the country. In the letters, instead of going to the roots and questioning the causes of this wave of robberies, assaults and murders, like Cro-Magnons, they cry out, in the 21st century, against the current of the world, for the return of the wall, the firing squads and the coups de grace.
Will the regime be probing the ground to end the moratorium not formally declared on the death penalty and apply it the same to murderers as to opponents who it deems put “national security” at risk? It would not be a surprise: how “the thing” has gotten so ugly and threatens to get worse.
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