The former minister Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera fell out of favor e, ‘Ipso facto’, the order to be “sensitive” was given.
CDMX, Mexico. – It is difficult to believe that Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera, now a former minister of work and social security, came up, for the first time on July 14, say that in Cuba there were beggars. The minister had probably denied before, and many times, that there were.
He does not believe that the minister would have dared to contradict, with such security – who did not miss – his bosses. Neither the Parliament, always so unanimous and crestfallen, would have applauded Minister X who contradicted her bosses.
Minister X, who was the Minister of Labor and Social Security, but could have been the internal trade or that of finance and prices, said what she knew she could say: the same as her, probably, she had not only said much before and many times, but she had heard of her own bosses, in God knows how many meetings.
Feitó Cabrera was not even wrong of place and moment, but, in any case, he missed not taking into account that his speech was being recorded and would then be available to the entire world. For that imprudence, and for nothing more, He was fired.
If we could not hear what she said, did the Parliament applauded her have demanded her resignation? Since Esteban Lazo, who also applauded her, would he have sent her to shut up? Did Manuel Marrero Cruz and Miguel Díaz-Canel have pronounced, would they have sent her to resign? Come on … this is Cuba.
We already know what happened: Feitó Cabrera fell unfortunately e, IPSO FACTOthe order to be “sensitive” was given. After his pawing pile, which is what he was, they began to rain Official media publications and official spokesmen Fruits of the revolution: so “sensitized” with others, so committed to the “vulnerable”, so delivered to those who almost had nothing. #QuenadiequedeatrásThey sent them to say, and they said it.
A day after the “resignation” of Feitó Cabrera, his former chief, Manuel Marrero Cruz, not only dedicated tender words, ”he said he had made a” brave “decision – but that deployed a data string before Parliament To demonstrate what the revolution had done: he said that social assistance had dealt with more than 182,000 families and “more than 310,000 people in vulnerability.” And he said they were not all. And, Zas, announced the increase in pensions for retirees.
And a week passed and the media and the authorities from everywhere began to perspire “sensitivity.” In Villa Clara, Where now Susley Morfaa “social protection center” was inaugurated “that this calls the regime to the institutions created to serve” people with wandering behaviors ” – with capacity for some 60 individuals. Morfa herself climbed into the wave of sensitivity and announced the opening of the institution: published photos and declared in an act that was “a work of infinite love” and that “nobody” – or revolution – would be homeless.
And before the scandal, what?
Until before the “resignation” of Feitó, the government and its propaganda apparatus opted less for empathy and more for control and denial. About three months before, last April, the government had issued new “Procedures for attention to people with wandering behavior”supposedly to “perfect” the policy initiated years ago, but maintaining the repressive approach of enclosing and hiding.
When Feitó Cabrera was fired, no one in the Plaza de la Revolution or in Parliament, which is one and the same thing, it occurred to him that the governor of Matanzas, Marieta Poey Zamora, should also be defenestrated. Three months before, the insensitive official had issued A directive for the “immediate creation of multisectoral groups” in charge of “face and eradicate people with wandering behavior.”
The insensitive official did not talk about providing social assistance, but of removing people from the public views, of cleaning the streets.
And before her, in March, the newspaper itself Granma He had published an article signed by a magistrate of the Supreme Court who made clear the legal-political channel of the matter. Under the title “Mendicity is not compatible with the Cuban social project”the lawyer warned that asking for alms “at first glance can be seen as tolerated” but in reality “it can be inserted in different criminal types.”
Feitó Cabrera’s speech on July 14 before Parliament did not occur to her, not because she did not have the ability to generate it, but because it was the speech of the official media, the local authorities and their lords bosses.
Since a year earlier, the minister herself I was describing “Insibly,” wandering behavior “as a” multicausal human behavior disorder “, characterized by the” lack of self -care “and the” instability of the place of permanence. ” On July 14 Feitó Cabrera spoke for his ministry, but also for his bosses. And, if they fired her, they fired her for their good, beings as sensitive as it had never been seen.
