Havana Cuba. — It is said that the wife of Louis XVI, worried about an angry popular disturbance (prologue to the French Revolution), asked one of her courtiers what the protest was about. “It is that the town does not have bread, Majesty”, answered the questioned one. The response attributed to the queen deserves to be reproduced: “Then why don’t they eat biscuits?”.
Perhaps the comment famous known as María Antonieta (due to a bad translation, since her correct name in Spanish would be —of course!— María Antonia) is apocryphal (“fake news”, we would say today). But in such a case, the wise Italian proverb should be applied: It is not true, it is good troubadour… Although it is an invention, it reflects in such an admirable way the confusion of the privileged in this world, that it is well worth mentioning.
Now in our beautiful Cubita, a serious competitor has emerged for the 18th-century Austrian woman who became queen of France thanks to a marriage alliance. The unexpected opponent is the brand new President of the Republic chosen by a single co-religionist of his, and voted for by a total of 605 of his countrymen: Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
The “Puesto a Dedo” (to whom many irreverent compatriots, in colloquial language, attribute homelessness) has thought of commenting on the current Caribbean summer: “We are going to find the charms in this time of intense heat.” And, evoking the great writer José Lezama Lima (persecuted by Castroism during his lifetime and exalted after his death), he urged people to enjoy what he calls “the ‘unspeakable party’ of living in Cuba.”
It is an undeniable fact that those who exercise command in non-democratic regimes (and what was that of France in the 18th century and is that of Cuba in the 21st!) suffer from a stark estrangement from popular needs. In this context, it seems natural that a rancid aristocrat from the Old Continent, in that distant era, did not have the remotest idea of what it means for someone disinherited from fortune not to have a piece of bread to put in his own mouth or in his mouth. that of their children.
But let an analogous nonsense say who currently puts his face as leader of the only party and Head of State of a country that fills its mouth to ensure that it is “of the humble, by the humble and for the humble”! Someone who, had he lived in Enlightenment France, was supposed to be among the revolutionaries who protested in the streets, and not among the privileged ones who inhabited the palaces!
Is it that Mr. Díaz-Canel is unaware that, for those who struggle between endless blackouts and famines, this “time of intense heat” has no charm at all! That many of our ordinary compatriots live in homes that often lack even windows (as happens in the “lots” or conventillos of the brand new “capital of all Cubans”)!
For those hundreds of thousands of unhappy people, the lack of electricity means not being able to count on the services of their modest fan (or even dream of an air conditioning unit!) that alleviates the suffocation of summer nights. And to suffer, in addition, the scourge of mosquitoes, for whose relief the new socialist State (in these times of dengue fever and other even worse evils transmitted by its bite) is not capable of even ensuring a fumigation with a little oil!
Of course, Mr. Díaz-Canel and his people do not have any practical information about these calamities! He, who moves around air-conditioned rooms and offices, and who travels in refrigerated vehicles, cannot have the remotest idea of the magnitude of the misfortunes that the socialism that he defends so much has meant for the generality of the subjects! of the!
But, until then, everything falls within the concept of what is acceptable and predictable. What is unheard of is that the current boss, with his trill, makes fun of his most unfortunate compatriots! That I exhort them to a hypothetical enjoyment of the dog days that, for them, only represents one more calamity that adds to the many that they suffer in this country that Díaz-Canel himself and his predecessors have mercilessly destroyed and of which almost all those aspire to leave as soon as they have the opportunity to do so!
The “unmentionable party” is best reserved for Mrs. Ana Hurtado (interpreter of a rude and recent Show propaganda) or for the unpresentable MEP Manu Pineda. In short, for some of those uninformed foreigners, boars, opportunists or cynics (or all four) who see in Cuba’s “real socialism” the perfect society, to which only someone who is a scoundrel or a mercenary at the service of unspeakable foreign interests is capable of criticizing.
Decidedly, Mr. Díaz-Canel’s advisers (perhaps belonging to the ineffable Ideological Department of the Central Committee?) are lousy. The new mistake is added to another unforgettable phrase: “Lemonade is the basis of everything.” These nonsense, added to those perpetrated by the Non-First Lady (with that of the “dictator of my heart” and having this same organ “in scourer mode”) suggest that both members of the presidential couple receive the same advice: the worst of all possible.
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