It is sorry that the Bayameses, with only two hours of electricity a day for 11 months, dance to the sound of the orchestra of Cándid
Havana.- In the midst of a social collapse that drags values and principles, mix traditions with pastiche, and combines general scarcity with dollarization in an inflationary spiral, surrounded by mountains of garbage, bad smells, diseases and blackouts, the closure of the closure of the closure of the closure of the summer.
Participants in these celebrations do not care, “Swimming”, the maelstrom of calamities in which they live or those that are coming. They are not aware of it – or they do not have it – and drown reality in alcohol, drugs or sell it in the market of neglect, opportunism and surrender, as merchants of the soul.
The Spanish philosopher predictedL Ortega y Gasset In his thesis on selected minorities and the mediocrity of mass culture that the imposition of this spurious art formula, which encourages and summons frustrated, chabacanas or without access to other options, would begin the crisis of Western society.
Castro spokespersons repeat as Cacatúas that “culture is a shield and sword of the nation.” Only they call culture the same to a bulk beer pipe located at the intersection of Zenea and Figueredo streets, in Bayamo, for the sale of rum in Trocha and San Agustín, in Santiago de Cuba, or the Casino wheel to say goodbye to summer in La Piragua, in front of the Malecon.
As a culmination of this summer stage, the designers and promoters of the alleged cultural activities implemented to divert the attention of the serious problems that afflict the country – and sell an image of popular support and normality abroad – celebrated from August 26 to 31 the Josone 2025 festival.
This festival, in its third edition in Varadero, framed in the slogan “A happy summer”he covered, as they titled, “From the trova to the cast”. So high is the level of aesthetic decrepitude of its organizers who went from the sublime to the ridiculous. Mixing the texts of Manuel Corona, Sindo Garay or María Teresa Vera with the creative abortions of Bebeshito, Misha, Raúl Torres or Cándido Fabré is an act against humanity against authentic popular culture.
According to the official press, more than 3,000 Cubans legitimized this alienating farce with its presence. It is shameful to see thousands of Cubans who have been sleeping for the prolonged blackouts of a suffocating summer for days and months, with hardly any eating or prowling due to the lack of food and water, attending celebrations for the closing of summer.
It is sad that the Bayameses, with only two hours of electricity a day for 11 months, dance to the sound of the orchestra of Cándido Fabré, interpreting a song with praiseful text for Fidel Castro, the initiator and cause of most of the majority of the evils that today overwhelm and add in material misery and moral indigence to those same that, with its presence in this farce, endorse the continuity of the continuity of the failed socialism.
The reason for those who celebrate in Cuba the closing of summer is doubtful. Maybe they celebrate the fate of still alive. Or, perhaps, the increase in prices, the increase in violence, hunger, lack of medicines and transport. Or maybe, the “success” of alternative feeding that equates them with the taíos.
Playing in both sides diversifies their political culture and creates spaces for survival. They think that in other countries is also hungry, electricity is missing, there are problems with the collection of garbage, transport, food and medicine. That is why they participate, they echo the official narrative, they collaborate and await with patience the sending of remittances or the possibility of fleeing the island.
Hence, as Colega Javier Prada asked in a recent article published on this page, I also ask me: What do you fly with the Cubans?
