Havana/The Cuban official press can no longer remain mute from what the streets shout: in Cuba there is drugs, and much. For years it was intended to launch a mantle of silence on the matter. The media limited themselves to reviewing what the guardians seized, but without touching the land inland. Now, cornered by the harsh reality exposed by social networks, with young people twisted publicly under the effects of chemicalfinally the Communist Party has given them permission to open their mouths.
In 2002 Raúl Castro said that the drug could only enter Cuba under “the conditions of a capitalist social system.” A decade later, during the Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean states of 2013, he repeated again: “I want to clarify that there is no drug in Cuba. They tried to introduce it. (…) Only a little marijuana, which is grown even in a pot in any balcony of any city of Cuba. But drug there is no there will be or there will be.”
Currently, almost all media address the problem with the frequency of those who meet a task. Some demonstrate not being clear how to do it and write in a poetic key or with the tone of a Sunday sermon. But others begin to risk giving it a more journalistic approach.
They even revealed that illicit substances were hidden in the disposable diaper of a baby “
The local medium Holguinero announced in March 13 cases of people charged with drug trafficking. In the operations, 18 marijuana, hashish and several blisters were occupied with different drugs controlled by their effects similar to drugs. They even revealed that illicit substances were hidden in the disposable diaper of a baby.
We will overcomethe organ of the Communist Party in Guantanamo, presented a specific case of drug use within a school. Andrés, its director, caught Infraganti to two students who were first hospitalized and then expelled from the teaching center. In that eastern province more than 270 kilograms of illegal substances have been seized.
The Cienfueguero digital newspaper September 5 It is at the forefront of the task. They have been half a dozen articles in this regard. In one of the most recent they confessed: “In recent months the issue of drug use and their confrontation in the country has been more treated in some media,” but tried to reassure their readers saying that it was not done “with signs of alarmism, but as alert.”
On the island of Youth the newspaper Victorypressed for his scarce approach to the matter, this headline gives us: “Social networks are 50 times more dangerous than drugs, according to a study.”
The creation of a National Drug Observatory “is also planned for the month of July”
The country’s authorities have ordered exemplary judgments against whom they commit crimes related to narcotics. And the provinces press has reviewed them in virtually all territories. In 2024 151 interprovincial traffic operations were detected and 1,157 people were sanctioned. The creation of a National Drug Observatory, under the supervision of the Ministry of Justice, is also planned for the month of July.
But it is not enough to detain the culprits, nor with making a public escarnio in the press, nor with organizing penions in the neighborhoods and schools. We would have to go to the cause. Why is the consumption of these substances among young people so widespread? If experts and journalists deepen the main reason for the success of the chemicalI could end up the license to talk about the subject.
