HAVANA, Cuba. – Those who believe that the main cause of the misfortunes that befall the Island is the bad memory of Cubans are not wrong. Not remembering, ignoring, denying or idealizing the past are attitudes noticeable in an important part of the population, especially those over 60 years of age, who affirm that “with Fidel we were better” or that under his mandate “these things did not happen.” ”.
With a little patience it is possible to understand the madness of those generations that have no remedy, either because they believe their own lies, or because accepting a disappointment after having thrown away their future and that of their children, requires a lot of courage. . What is not easy to digest are the words of a young man, who must not be older than 25, stating that he would like to sit down and eat with Fidel Castro because he “always gave us everything and with him things went super, super, much better for the youth.”
His criteria not only demonstrates the tremendous lack of political culture of the majority of young Cubans and the weakening of the effects of Castroism that has been produced under the economic and social impact caused by the terrible management of the government of Miguel Diaz-Canel. It also measures the extent to which the nation’s future is fractured, if not mutilated.
That boy, with his collarbone sticking out of his sweater, had not been born, or was very small, when the call came. Special Periodone of the great crises suffered by Cubans thanks to the voluntarism, foolishness and despotism of Fidel Castro. You cannot be aware of the number of young people who risked their lives by getting on a raft and jumping into the sea to try to reach the coast of Florida while the top leader politicized the massacre.
That boy who would like to sit down to eat with the leader who made Cubans go through so much hunger while he, his family, friends and relatives did not deprive themselves of anything, is not capable of articulating the present that today has him “resisting” with the past. who made “resistance” a heavy-handed policy towards the people, because here only those who are like him have been forced to resist: without resources, deprived of rights and oblivious even to themselves.
Not even the official slogan of “we are continuity” brings any light to his brain plagued by the lack of healthy food, ignorance and more than likely drug use. Many young people are like this, dead in life and talking stupid things. Every time they express themselves in this way in front of a camera, they make public the enormous failure of the Revolution towards them, the great lie that we are as a country and, above all, the suspicion that the Cuba of tomorrow is almost impossible. If a jewel is your statement, a pearl or two may also be found in the comments.
It turns out that when Fidel was alive, there was “everything” in hospitals and schools. Such a statement reveals both the prolonged survival exercise of the writer and the depth of the disaster that the country is going through today, where a surgical kit costs at least 30,000 pesos, and parents have had to buy LED tubes to illuminate the classrooms. their children, even fans so they don’t get so hot. That is Fidel’s legacy combined with the Murillo-Gil-Canel effect and his Ordering Taskwith which they wanted to straighten out, at the worst possible moment, the economic distortion created by the “undefeated commander” with the introduction of the CUC (chavito) in the 90s.
This thoughtless and capricious way of acting, without measuring the terrible consequences on the population, has the mark of Fidel Castro everywhere. The impact doesn’t matter, what matters is doing it and keeping the caste in power. If it goes wrong, there will already be a belated and reluctant recognition of the error, which will in no way change the result of the initial bad decision, nor the toll of new victims.
The boy who wants to sit and eat with Fidel Castro will never understand that the greatest leader is, in reality, the greatest culprit for his current and future poverty, because the system created by him is specially designed so that the common Cuban does not prosper. He will not understand that that force that – according to him – Fidel always gave us, was pure and simple repression, coercion, imposition.
That boy goes through life without knowing that he is a recluse, sunk in the darkest cell that, unfortunately, is within himself. His youth without hope, indoctrinated, starved, doped and multiplied by thousands, figures among the sad merits of Fidel Castro and his successors; Only the latter do not have the capacity to sell such a horrendous crime as another “achievement of the Revolution.”
