The absenteeism at the sanitation day left a very clear message: not even those who supposedly defend what remains of the process are willing to go to volunteer work.
HAVANA.- Yes Miguel Diaz-Canel It bothers him that they call him “hitman”, the sit-in that his own cadres gave him during the so-called sanitation day last weekend must have caused him severe indigestion. In a video he is seen with a more distraught face than normal, scolding those who ignored his call and did not go to clean the areas that corresponded to them as planned. It turns out that there were not two or three disobedients, but many and in several municipalities of the capital; So the increasingly less ruler was angry, with a self-conscious face, because if he and his wife took the trouble to go rake in a small park and pose for the cameras collecting dry leaves, how is it possible that so many paintings have stayed in their homes without bending their backs even a little, without sweating a single drop?
The absenteeism at the sanitation day left a very clear message: not even those who supposedly defend what remains of the process are willing to go to voluntary work, much less to collect the stench accumulated due to the poor management of those who decide everything, who are not them, because they are there to appear, to go to meetings and appear on camera taking notes in an agenda, yawning or sleeping openly, knowing that this meeting, like all previous ones, will not provide a solution to any of the country’s problems. The cadres stood up, very discreetly, refusing to clean up, which was a particularly painful blow to Díaz-Canel’s image, because it is one thing to be the puppet of the Castro Espín family, and quite another to have your subordinates pass your orders through their armpits.
They care so little about what Díaz-Canel says that, while he scolded those who did not go out to clean, the faces of those present reflected fatigue, mockery, apathy, a total disconnection from the historical moment. If this is how the cadres react, who grow fat and prosper thanks to their undeserved positions, what can be expected from the people who are killed by hunger and disease, amid blackouts and a shortage of drinking water. “Where are the (neighborhood) politicians, the delegates, the CDR members?” asked Díaz-Canel, who ignores that the CDR only works in Gerardo Hernández Nordelo’s block, for obvious reasons.
From that same parallel, surreal Cuba, José Ramón Monteagudo – Head of the Agri-Food Department of the Central Committee of the PCC – not only regretted the weak response to the call; He also urged that the employees themselves be responsible for cleaning and collecting waste in each workplace. It is enormous impudence that the leader of a sector that has failed miserably has dared to suggest that teachers, doctors, nurses, engineers, accountants and a long etcetera of people who do work, should add extra hours to their very hard day to start cleaning because the government has no money, fuel or shame to explain how it has reached this point.
What happened to the experimental plan – carried out in 2024 – to leave garbage collection in the Cerro municipality in the hands of the Talleres Delis company, with the aim of extending the initiative, if it was satisfactory, to other municipalities in the capital? Why did this interest in solving an urgent problem through collaboration between the state and the private sector fail? What happens that the government and MSMEs only understand each other when the business is import-export, but when it comes to undertaking a work of social impact, agreements are rarely successful?
If the government does not have the money to pay a private company, or the workers of the Comunales company, then it should employ the armed forces with their trucks, their fuel reserves and their troops, who have been earning very high salaries for decades at the expense of an imaginary war. But always use them, not on a weekend, not just in Havana, because the entire country is the same and the garbage is not going to end. Let them go out and clean until the state finds a company that will do it, perhaps this way they will return to this society a small part of what it has invested in maintaining three armies for nothing.
Right now is a good time for Díaz-Canel to overcome the brutal disregard with which he has been given and call on the military full-time, instead of putting that burden – yet another one – on the shoulders of a people that has reached the limit of its strength. As for the colleague who is enthusiastic about having workers take care of cleaning, we must thank him for the suggestion of putting a machete in people’s hands. I hope your proposal is heard and people come, en masse, to uproot the weeds that do not allow fruit or hope to grow on this island.
