You have to take the streets as they did in Gibara, with the awareness that if it could be there, in Nepal, it can also be here.
Inhabitation, Cuba. – The protests in Gibara had to extend to the entire island but did not happen. The trigger were the blackouts of more than 24 hours, but in places like the center of Santa Clara, where there were more than 40, or in Caibarién, from where they have reported more than 50, although there were micromanifestations, most people chose to continue “resisting” and protest only with murmurs inside their homes.
In Matanzanzas, with the occasional exception, places with more than 30 hours with power outages, remain silent and endured, and in Pinar del Río, with areas where the settlers have already lost the account of the days without electricity, although the discomfort is large, it has not even been known about individual protests, which personally gives me much more fear than the possible eternalization of darkness and hunger, because it speaks of a kind of “zombification” of national numbness, more when in Nepal just given us a lesson of what it is possible to do if we unite strength and channel anger once and for all.
In Havana, with places traditionally where the lack of electric fluid has extended daily for more than 10 hours, joining the shortage of water and fuels for cooking, some cauldrons have been sounded, some have shouted strong against the regime and, even in the Vedado, in the vicinity of the Cohiba hotel, someone on social networks reported the pneumatic fire but, how far I could investigate, nothing happened.
The protests nuclei did not extend. An attitude similar to indifference, or indifference itself, continues to reign among the Cubans, while the dictatorship, once again, uses these silences (because the one who silences, grants) to talk about “understanding”, of “trust”, of “support” and other nonsense that pretends to obtain from a people that, at times, seem that it really likes to be abused, punished, repressed, repressed, repressed and treated as a beast.
I have turned to the matter, to the question of our immense apathy (which only has a small dose of true fear, as well as too much of opportunisms, selfishness and complicities) and, although some friends explain the differences of contexts between Nepal and Cuba, between those communists of Asia and these of the Caribbean – both of “lyes” – no explanation convinces me or makes my opinion change that we are actually reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping what we are reaping.
Only the question of systematic abuse to which we have undergone Cubans, plus the high levels of misery that physically and mentally suffocate us, from time to time they take me to think about domestication and adaptation as causes of our crossed arms, but as soon as I see people in a corner, in full blackout, cursing down to Miguel Díaz-Canel but, at the same time drinking and passing the videos of the protests in Gibara, To enjoy them as if it were a fiction movie, I strengthen even more the conviction that we receive what we deserve.
Once again, to the brave few who have been between exodus and imprisonment, we have left them alone, with total awareness that we do it and that with our silence we become accomplices of a dictatorship that only remains that we push it a little to fall. However, we don’t even want to do, waiting for others to put the beaten, the dead, the prisoner, and incidentally to the head of communism in a silver tray.
We prefer to go to jail for stealing, cheating or assaulting the neighbor who looked at us sideways or who slipped into the cellar row. We behave like true Pencos without remedy when we must face those who really deserve it, since with that only fight, that we know brief and possible, everything that makes our anger accumulate, while reappearing hope.
Let’s stop strengthening that myth. Let’s throw it down. The apathy of the Cubans is not a matter of fears, it is only a matter of hypocrisy and even vagancies, mediocrities and evil, and if we stripped us even if it is a couple of hours of those ballasts, as the men and women of Gibara did exemplary, and the others who responded solidarity from their places, still far, in less than 48 hours we would end up with this hell. Likespublishing on Facebook. Definitely, you have to take the streets as they did in Gibara, with the awareness that if it could be there, in Nepal, it can also be here.
