Havana Cuba. – As things are, as horrible as they are, every day the possibility of a real solution to Cuba’s problems is further away. We know that the fall of the regime would be the essential condition to begin to get out of the quagmire, but it is just the first step among hundreds that we would have to take to begin to rebuild a literally collapsed country, a society in ruins.
The task of beginning to heal is not easy, and although many imagine that economic prosperity will come along with political change, the truth is that it will take a few years, too many, to begin to see those great results that we long for.
How many are willing to wait that much longer when six decades have exhausted our patience? How many will be ready to return to their native country, to invest their savings, to bet on the future after putting down roots in other parts of the world?
We all wish that after a great protest, a national strike, the next day, prosperity would arrive just as the light arrives with the cacerolazos but not even freedom will be ready when the dictatorship leaves because becoming a totally free country , after more than half a century of oppression, requires people who think without fear, without the schemes of violence, censorship, opportunism and guilt that the repressors inoculate us to make each one of us our own enemies.
We have walked backwards for too many years to think that it would be a matter of hours, in a single jump, to return to the present, to update ourselves, to synchronize our clocks with the rest of the world. There are too many regressions in time, in all aspects, although some insist on seeing “freezes” where there are none.
Cuba is not a country stopped in time —I wish it were like that, because it would be a matter of starting and that’s it—, Cuba is a country that has been lost in time. And we would have to start by guessing what time we are in today, now, in what dimension.
Let us understand that the Cuban regime does not cling to a moment of the past, but flees, going deeper and deeper into it, like a short-sighted and foolish coward in search of a refuge that he cannot find because he never finds out that time is not a place .
This reality that we live in, as adverse as it is anachronistic, is expressed in our almost collective sensation that we are falling headlong not even into the worst moments of the Special Period, but rather into an insane primitive community where neither the law nor the moral sense are valid.
The idea of throwback is reiterated in internet memes and street jokes as if it were just a joke, caricature of reality, exaggeration, but the lack of electricity, the possibility that they will never be fixed thermoelectric plants, the collective broths that are already advertised in Camagüeythe savagery of the queues for food, people digging through garbage dumps, entire families living in the open… they tell us that there is too much crying in our expressions of protest or resignation.
The truth is that we are getting worse every day, and not only because the communists have tried to stop at some past “moment of glory” —there never was— but because “advancing” backwards has never been good for anyone or anything, in addition to the fact that both in matters of real life and in politics it is something impossible, and it only reveals to a demagogic government that it no longer has anything good to offer, that its formulas have been exhausted, that it withdraws because it recognizes itself as weak and fears what will come: the imminent fall.
They have withdrawn every time they have been able to move the country “forward” towards prosperity for all. They did it with Obama and they will do it again every time there is the slightest suspicion or certainty that they are not included in future plans. They do not accept that prosperity for Cuba means quitting the game, giving up, stopping this machine that only runs in reverse and that the sooner they do so, the greater the chances that the reconstruction of the country will be less traumatic for those who suffer today from here or from afar.
But it happens that this perpetual regression in time, this debacle that we are witnessing, for so long that it has remained like this, walking backwards on a tightrope, has become, like a circus act, the miserable business of many outside and inside. .
Thus, every time the dictatorship has been about to fall, the “miracle” of salvation occurs in which everyone and from everywhere participates, without exception, because they shake the rope to make the tightrope walker tremble but if he really falls some time, the function is finished, forever.
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