A mob of police, military and plainclothes agents on motorcycles in Suzuki, plus a Criminalistics vehicle, gathered this Wednesday on General Serrano street, almost on the corner of Vía Blanca, in Santos Suárez, Havana. It was not for any blood crime: the last of the graffiti against the designated president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has appeared there.
“It seems that someone has been killed,” said a local resident sarcastically, while a group of officials in white coats bustled in front of the wall, which said in gigantic letters: “Down with Canel singao.” “I guess they’re collecting fingerprints, because they can’t be doing anything else there,” the man continued, looking at the entire display in astonishment.
The posters with phrases against the government, and especially against Díaz-Canel, are becoming more and more frequent in the Cuban streets. Not a day goes by that the Cuban ruler is not the target of a meme, a joke, a joke or a graffiti, something unthinkable when new technologies had not reached the island or the terror that Fidel Castro instilled dissuaded so many from scribbling a wall with your name.
Not a day goes by that the Cuban ruler is not the target of a meme, a joke, a joke or a graffiti
The place chosen for this graffiti could not be more symbolic. Popularly known as “the Malecón without water”, the wall separates the busy Vía Blanca from the nearest houses, but also draws a well-marked border between very poor neighborhoods, such as El Canal, and others with greater purchasing power, in the style of Saint Suarez.
Some neighbors and drivers who passed by the place published images on social networks in which an entire crime team is seen photographing and trying to obtain fingerprints around the poster, an action that has fueled criticism in a city marked by robberies and assaults that are mostly never investigated or the perpetrators are not captured .
The allusions to television programs such as CSI and its official Cuban copy, Behind the Footprint, were not lacking among Internet users, who also ironized about the presence of a tanker truck with water to help with the cleaning and removal of the letters. , in the middle of a city where the water supply is a headache for hundreds of thousands of inhabitants.
Passers-by were particularly struck by the size of the graffiti. With letters over a meter high, something that implies additional value for the authors, who must have spent more time in the area to complete their work, a job that the lack of public lighting that characterizes the place must have facilitated.
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