Havana Cuba. – The catastrophe occurred in the fuel depots in the Bay of Matanzas adds to a long list of misfortunes that occurred in a very short time, which has ended up fueling the superstition of Cubans. Some say that the country is cursed; others, that Díaz-Canel is “salao”, and there is no lack of hallelujahs that invite repentance because the kingdom of God is near, a regulatory warning in times of misfortune.
Díaz-Canel himself admitted that “we are salty” because there is no way to resolve the economic crisis without alleviating at least the fuel supply crisis; fuel that right now spills, burns and emits dangerous gases into the atmosphere of an Island that can no longer be darker.
There have been so many “unfortunate accidents” in close dates (all under investigation), that what happened in Matanzas should have no other cause than the negligence and incapacity of a government that is only interested in stretching the marshmallow as far as it can, with the only purpose of continuing to collect dollars and then disappearing them without having improved a single one of the country’s precarious infrastructures.
It is not necessary to calculate the real probabilities that in three months two lightning strikes in the industrial zone of Matanzas; nor question the quality and maintenance of the lightning rods that had to protect each of the deposits. The clearest evidence of what the priorities of this government are is in the image where a nurse is seen with a piece of cardboard, fanning the burned back of one of the firefighters.
That photograph breaks the soul; especially since all the resources that should be devoted to the hospitals of this country are based on the comfort of a handful of insensitive, greedy and heartless potbellies, who thrive well away from the flames.
It is enough to imagine how much a second or third degree burn can hurt, and how desperate it must be not to be able to count on the relief of a heated room in the middle of August, so that no one ever speaks again of the “effort” that the State makes to insure anything. There are 17 missing firefighters and a snapshot that explains exactly why. There you can see them, almost stuck in the fire with the routine hoses, useful at most to put out a house fire.
They were this close because the revolutionary government did not guarantee the necessary equipment or technology to deal with this kind of disaster; as well as there was no concern about maintaining the lightning rods and connecting them to ground correctly, according to two sources interviewed by Cuban Journal. The Cuban regime is so materially miserable that it has been forced to request international aid. And it is so morally miserable that it has only accepted that of “friendly” countries, because they are the ones that are willing not to tell the world what they are going to verify with their own eyes on the scene.
If the cause of the fire was negligence or human error, it will not escape the eye of an experienced firefighter; but as long as you are Mexican or Venezuelan, everything stays at home. From the United States has only been accepted “technical advice”; no face-to-face help. They fear that the lightning story will become more than an isolated fatality; Let it be known that, by allocating billions to propaganda, internal repression and international interference, they have not taken care to protect the lives of Cubans.
Three months ago the explosion of the Saratoga hotel occurred and now this is happening, in the midst of an epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever, with cases of COVID-19 on the rise and a general crisis that long ago got out of hand for Díaz-Canel and your triglyceride cabinet. It seems that misfortune does not give us respite; but this has nothing to do with “salaries”, although everyone says that Díaz-Canel is osogbo.
The truth can be seen in the images of Matanzas, its brave children, its deteriorated health infrastructure and the thousands of evacuees who have had to leave their homes in the worst socioeconomic scenario since 1959. The same government that has the firefighters in rags and without resources, while the anti-riot troops show off uniforms and modern devices to repress.
The people of Matanzas will once again hear the teque of current misery and the necessary sacrifice, but this time from the mouth of the woman who a few years ago, in the midst of the Summit of the Americas and sparing no gossip, yelled at a reporter that “Cubans are rich”. Susely Morfa is today the First Secretary of the Communist Party in Matanzas, and many would like to ask her where is the wealth of a country whose nurses have to fan the burns of citizens who risked their skin to protect their compatriots, and the assets of a State that it has allowed the town’s hospitals to literally become pigsties, due to lack of investment.
It is not a curse that hangs over Cuba. It is continuity; the evident wickedness of a government to which not a single virtue can be pointed out. Every thing that doesn’t work on this unfortunate Island, every victim of the many accidents that have occurred in recent years, is their fault. The crew and passengers of the plane that crashed in 2018, the girls crushed by a balcony in Old Havana, the thousands of deaths from COVID-19, the 46 deaths from the Saratoga and the lives consumed by the fire in the industrial zone of Matanzas, it’s their fault.
It is impossible to steal a country, plunder and starve it for more than six decades, and then blame the people, or nature.
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