Havana, Cuba. – When there are blackouts, although they are increasingly frequent (two and three times a day) and more hours, the casserole touches in Havana are no longer as thunderous as years ago. There are few who join the protest. And there are even those who complain about the noise of the cauldrons, as if bothering them as much as darkness, heat and mosquitoes. “Total, what are you going to get with that,” they say. They prefer to try to sleep, lying on the floor of the portal or the roof, soaked in sweat, with insects by biting them and buzzing them in their ears, or continuing sitting at the door, waiting for them to put the light.
When someone, exasperated by the miserable existence in which the continuity regime has plunged us into “The dictatorship!”, “Homeland and life” or some expletive against Díaz-Canel, most likely, many of those who see it, instead of adding to the protest, they go away, pretending to do not hear, or comment that “that is crazy that the only thing he will get is that they fall as sticks and put him in jail. ”
If the police appear, they hit the one who protests, they drag it to the patrol car, they ride it and take it handcuffed, people just look. If perhaps, they comment in a low voice “what abuse” and some, with a lot of dissimulation, record the scene with the mobile.
Although neither remotely with the massiveness of before, they continue to go to the marches and how much Bochinche summons the regime, those who say they are bounding that the work or the study center if they are missing. And they even pretend their little enthusiasm, to please the mayors who arrange them and carry the assistance list.
Anyone would believe that they are happy, that they do not make the hunger or blackouts, those who overwhelmed and ruled these days in the streets of Santiago and Matanzas, or the young people who permeated and twisted in the concert of Danny Ome and Kevincito 13, two reggaetons living in Miami and that They lent themselves to participate in the celebrations for July 26 Although one of them is the son of an activists from the Blanco and Exériserra political ladies.
Many, mainly abroad, have concluded that Cubans here have adapted to all deprivations and misfortunes that the regime has imposed, and are satisfied and obedient, willing to endure anything. And that is why, by submissions and endures, for not revolting, we deserve everything we are happening and much more.
It is not that simple. Those who think so overlook the domestication mechanisms of totalitarian regimes. Especially, if Castroism has prolonged for 66 years, more than plenty of time to intimidate, deceive, manipulate, disorient and induce camp mentality to more than four generations of Cubans.
Parents and grandparents, when the time of the glorifications ended and came the disappointment and disappointment, transmitted to their descendants the double moral, the simulate not to point and look for problems, take care of everyone, learn to live under “this”, try to accommodate and take advantage of what you can while you can …
As much as the fear of repression, or perhaps more, apathy and inertia for too long have done much damage to Cubans. He has convinced many of the irrevocability of his misery, of the impossibility of doing something to change the situation. Therefore, resigitely, they repeat, as a song to their defeat, that “there is no one to fix it, but neither does they who lay it.”
Those who want a change, but without being the ones who go prisoners, take the blows or put the dead, they are still waiting for the help of “the Americans”, the Russians, the Chinese, or appear “up there” some reformist to the Gorbachev who, “when the old men die”, decide to move chips. But, if they have a relative abroad that is generous with remittances, they don’t hurry too much that that happens.
To justify their fear, many seek excuses that almost always end in criticisms of the decimated and disjointed opposition and recriminations into exile. Particularly, they feel insulted by the comments and exhortations of certain Influencers and Youtubersas if because they were out of Cuba, they did not have the right to judge what happens here or ceases to happen.
Defeatism and impotence have become more evident after the brutal repression of The protests on July 11 and 12, 2021the more than 1,000 imprisoned protesters and the laws against the dissent of a criminal code of Nazi -estalinist characteristics that criminalize even comments on social networks.
But discontent continues to grow. There is no way to stop it. They are less and less those who hide it. Only those privileged by the crumbs of the elite and some stubborn elders who do not want to give their arm to twist and continue to repeat that “with Fidel this did not happen”, they believe that the increasingly detested communist mandamases have political capacity and will to get out of the crisis. Even less are those who believe in the justifications, pretexts and promises of the mandamases. We know its perverse mechanisms. The naive credulity in what the regime says a long time ago. What remains is the cynicism disguised as Pachanga and apathy. This damn inertia that is daily killing us. But it will also end. Sooner rather than later. There is no other. Life is going to us as a nation.
