HAVANA, Cuba. – Cuba is ending the year in style: without electricity, medicine, rice, sugar, or food in agriculture. In the provinces people is cooking with firewood and charcoal. In Havana, MSMEs swallow more fuel than boat drivers to keep power plants running and reduce losses to a minimum. In Madrid, Ana de Armas puts on the clothes and he yells “Bitch!” to a journalist who blames him for his complicity with the dictatorship, while Cubans are dying of hunger and in darkness in a country that has been going to hell for some time. The Electrical Union publishes on its social networks a Power Point presentation to destroy us – because they believe us to be hopeless idiots – which in reality establishes the Decree 110/2024 about scheduled blackouts of more than 72 hours, it turns out that things are not quite like that. We were the ones who misunderstood the terrible writing of those who wrote the document, and who never had the intention of getting us used to prolonged power outages.
The thinking tanks that proposed alternatives – all failed – such as “plant your little piece”, “raise your little fish” and “beautify your food”, now claim that forms of non-state management (resellers, if we have to call them what they really are) ) produce their own energy and the country will be filled with solar panels within three years. State economic actors will also have to adopt this modality, but they will be able to do so calmly, because the State itself plans to build in the dismantled National Aquarium, and through an agreement with the Italian company Sabor Cubano SRL, a world-class water park in a country where people have been carrying water for 60 years, and currently there are more than 600,000 Cubans who do not have access to that resource vital.
Two different and irreconcilable Cubas enter the most festive month of the year. One of them, which represents almost the entire national territory, the week has started in blackoutwhile the other prepares to celebrate the birthday of the most media scion of the Castro family.
Sandro Castro has once again made the news thanks to a young spokesperson who presents himself on social networks as Carluchín Verde, whose real name is Carlos Rogelio Bolufé, son of Rogelio Bolufé, an infiltrated State Security agent who arrived in Miami a few years ago. pretending to be an opponent of the Cuban dictatorship. Carluchín announced that Sandro Castro will celebrate his birthday on December 5 “in style” at the EFE bar, an establishment located on the central 23rd avenue of Vedado in Havana. There will be no shortage of current, drinks or food, because that bar is owned by Fidel Castro’s grandson, according to what he himself admitted in a direct which he carried out with the objective of “clarifying, so that no one is confused, that he is celebrating his birthday with all his rights, as a young revolutionary, in his business.”
Just as it happened when He exhibited himself in the middle of the pandemic driving a Mercedes Benz on the Varadero highway, which he described as “one of the toys we have at home,” the direct attempt to clarify the alleged misunderstanding has not only worsened the situation, but has also unlocked a higher level of contempt from the traditional ruling caste. and of a new type― towards the Cuban people.
The first thing that draws attention in his statement is that Sandro Castro publicly admitted that the EFE bar belongs to him, pointing out that everything happens there within the margin of legality, as if the Castro family’s businesses could be subjected to scrutiny in a country where the class empowered by his grandfather and his great-uncle are above the Comptroller General of the Republic.
Sandro Castro, with his Mercedes, his bar, his recreation at the El Patrón farmhis freedom and his impunity, he considers himself as “a normal, ordinary young man,” although he said this referring, undoubtedly, to the social and economic framework in which those of his class operate. The other normality, the real one, in which millions of Cubans gather, is completely foreign to them. However, his audacity is so profound that he tries to put himself on the same level as a regular citizen, one of those who don’t remember the last time they celebrated their birthday, or that of their children.
Fidel’s grandson justified himself and on top of that he treated Cubans as “confused”, as his grandfather did, with the same disgusting paternalism that only accentuates the contempt they feel for all of us. He even had the plan to assure that his objective was not to “clarify anything to those people who sow so much hatred when we should all be united in these times of difficulties,” as if he, who appeared at the fire at the Supertanker Base in Matanzas to take a selfie with the blister packs of water in the trunk of his car, had any idea what the word “difficulty” means.
The life of Sandro Castro and his page Carluchín takes place with their backs to this Cuba in ruins. For them, the “Revolution” is a forgotten relic, which they dust off and display when it suits them. Miguel Díaz-Canel is even less so, as the young lackey demonstrated in his direct redress, where he released the most anemic “Viva Canel” of those that have been heard so far.
However, Díaz-Canel must already be accustomed to the snubs, the mockery and the scorn that he earned on July 11, 2021. It is the Cuban people who do not seem to notice that they lead a beastly life and as such are treats. Given what we have seen, and what is coming without anger and shame showing anywhere, we are two steps away from being the ones. sing.
