Havana Cuba. – Saying that expropriation laws exist everywhere is no consolation for Cubans. Neither insist that a written law “give substance” and “update” what was already done before because we have plenty of bad experiences with those tricks of “public or social interest”, which the regime interprets and uses as twisted as they have been. the “socialist” use and interpretation of the concepts of “democracy” and “freedom of expression” in the 2019 Constitution.
It is not in vain that the expression that is heard the most in the streets, in our homes, comes to us drenched in uncertainty, distrust and fear, as a reflection of the growing rejection that a majority feels for an extremely unpopular regime and that, without other arguments to retain power for a longer time, uses the undeniable effects of the United States embargo in its favor, appealing to social and economic suffocation as methods of control.
“And now what else are they going to take away from us?” A question that sums up our state of extreme misery from which it is difficult to imagine that something of value, truly ours, can remain after, for decades, absolutely everything has been taken from us, even the hope that we will ever be able to repair this country. broken, reduced to rubble and scattered around the world in the form of millions of individual tragedies, of traumas difficult to overcome.
Cuba is a constant nightmare of loss and unease, a huge social nonsense product of a dictatorship that, in the beginning, pretended to be “something different” from the rest of the world and that, with nothing to offer anyone after 60 years —besides traps in the form of laws—, tries to convince the world that it is not an archaic and totalitarian regime but a government as “up-to-date” as any other, exhibiting with great fanfare a preliminary draft of the Family Code open mindedbehind which they hide a medieval penal code.
The silk glove that disguises the (rusty) iron hand. But, in the end, all legal instruments full of contradictions and traps that, once in force, will be used arbitrarily, depending on who has committed the “crime” because in Cuba we are not all equal before that bunch of laws that the communists they are invented to simulate a “rule of law” at a time of total bewilderment (and discontent).
The people cry out for bread and the regime responds with blows with the only thing it can produce: a deluge of laws and decrees that will come to make it more evident that our lives on the Island are the closest thing to a dramatic situation of kidnapping, blackmail .
The laws do not take away hunger but, at least for a while, they make us confuse the noise of the intestines with music. We are aware that we do not eat laws, but also that soon they will eat us all, rebellious and submissive.
Thus, not only are collective and individual freedoms taken away from us under the pretext of a “common good” —which no one sees anywhere in a country that exudes calamity even in the very “luxury hotels”— but our families and properties are under threat if we step out of line as disobedient.
What else can they take from us? Some wonder while in a kind of pantomime they go through their pockets to show that they live in the most depressing helplessness. An abandonment that they suffer from long before the “Sort Task” —with which they tried to fix the economy— ended up sinking us into this crisis that looks worse than the famine of the 90s.
Because 30 years ago at least we dreamed of the possibility that the fall of the communist regimes in Europe would be the prelude to the end of Castroism but here we are, back in this time loop from which not even the fanatics of the left allow us to leave nor the hypocrites of the European democracies, nor the opportunists of the “love bridges” and the lucrative business of “shipping to Cuba.”
Now, when even with the damned MLC it is not possible to eat in a dignified way, we find that when they promised to “order” the chaos of dual currency, they barely designed their own emergency lifeline. Therefore nothing good can be expected from this storm of laws, decrees, codes that jump from the same cloud from which the waters in which we sank fell before.
What they have plotted for their own benefit we already know. Just look at the contrasts of hotels built and to be built compared to the thousands of houses in ruins, expropriated or in plans to be expropriated for “social interest”, but very rarely repaired with dignity for “public benefit”.
It is enough to know how many dozens of patrol cars there are for each ambulance in service or, simply, to look around us and stop for a moment to count homeless people, beggars, crazy and sick people of all kinds, poorly cared for elderly people, ordinary people desperate for bring food to their tables, people who emigrate or aspire to emigrate, people with dull faces sitting at the door of the house because it is where only one can travel when there is neither the strength nor the money to venture further.
And if so much impoverishment is not enough, then let’s return to that terrain of “good laws” where they want to take us and think about the trials of the demonstrators of the 11Jin the exaggerated sentences against those who barely uploaded images to the internet from the phone.
Not having solid arguments with which to judge as criminal acts what were clear signs of the tiredness of young men and women, they once again broke their own laws. Even the very “premiere” Constitution has been interpreted over and over again at will because that is what it is all about, a text where just a couple of paragraphs, like a divine ordinance, are capable of annulling the Magna Carta in its entirety. Because in reality in Cuba we do not have a Constitution, but a simulacrum, just as the laws, decrees and codes that derive from such a circus are.
They are doing nothing more than producing a barrage of “laws” not so much to shield themselves even more but to increase the state of terror in which we Cubans live. And they name them “laws” just as they themselves have the audacity to call themselves “government”, but none of them is what they say they are.
Everything warns us that both the new Criminal Code and the Family Code, the Expropriation Law plus those that come will soon be tools of psychological torture that will persuade the most reckless to remain calm (and even obedient), because not only will jail awaits whoever decides to take to the streets but will also have to go through other hells in relation to the family and personal heritage, by virtue of a “common good” that is none other than that of an elite of potbellies who when they say or write “homeland” they do it looking at their navel.
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