HAVANA, Cuba.- It did not happen after the protests of July 11, when the police locked up so many minors in prison, hundreds of fathers and mothers who were the breadwinners of their homes and saw their families sink into a absolute helplessness. Nor did it happen during the legal proceedings against the protesters, although there was no shortage of brave men who tried to unite those affected in a common cause for freedom and justice. It didn’t happen then because the State Security persecution was atrocious, and many mothers remained silent for fear of worsening, with their claims, the situation of their imprisoned children.
Almost a year later, popular indignation is again strongly manifested through desperate mothers, who stand up to the regime for the terrible conditions in which they live with their children. After the direct Amelia Calzadillaa Cuban who exceeded the limit of what is humanly bearable, several mothers have dared to denounce the routine of deprivation and abuse they suffer due to absurd government policies.
That clamor that has not yet been launched into the streets, occurs in days of solitary confinement for thousands of Cubans. Since the Summit of the Americas began, independent civil society has restricted access to the Internet to guarantee the univocality of the regime on what happens in the continental event. However, the effects have been so prolonged and so wide-reaching in the population, that the problem is already beginning to give a bad feeling.
Repression and exodus have not been able to placate the discomfort of the people. July 11 is approaching and the dictatorship fears a massive commemoration, this time led by mothers who prefer to go to prison rather than continue to endure in silence the scarcity of their malnourished children, without medicine or shoes; in many cases living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, with danger to their lives.
Cubans have not only reached an extreme of poverty and exhaustion greater than the crisis of the 1990s. They have also had to suffer a political caste incapable of alleviating – not just solving – the disastrous impact of six decades of Stalinism, to which is added the hangover from the pandemic, the world economic crisis and the war in Ukraine.
The desperation of those mothers who today they make direct to say “enough already”is very distant from the spokesmen who at the People’s Summit defend the memory of a Revolution that does not exist, and in whose name they have bled the Cuban nation.
Those born in this land no longer want to hear about the obstacles imposed by the blockade. All they know is that their compatriots emigrate by the tens of thousands, the United States relaxes sanctions, the National Assembly passes resolutions and more than sixty measures are implemented to boost agriculture, but every day there is less food in the country.
Mothers like Amelia are fed up with promises and justifications that only aggravate the misery in which they live, while the top staff of the dictatorship exhibits its disgusting obesity and GAESA does not stop its real estate plan even though experts assure that the economy is plummeting.
The apologists of the regime do not notice such contradictions. They are not interested. For them, mothers like Amelia are disposable soldiers who can aspire, if anything, to catharsis. Those who defend the system that has destroyed Cuba at the Summit of the Americas do not want to hear from mothers who complain, nor do they understand why they complain. A long time ago those “friends” of Cuba decided that it is up to Cubans to resist and die heroically, so that they can continue doing lobby for the left that will save the world through modern slavery and underhanded extermination.
Cuba’s poverty is already identical to that shown with concern in the United Nations, but attributed to the Congo, Guatemala or Malaysia. Cuba’s is never mentioned; it is a necessary evil to feed the ego of the world’s fidelistas, who could not last a month in the Cuba that Fidel destroyed.
“Sell the Island!” Amelia shouts and she is right. It is not about annexation or support for an eventual invasion. Is not a hashtags mockingly asking Elon Musk to buy Cuba. It is a practical solution for those who suffer; especially for those mothers who do not want to be revered, or to be heroines in other people’s speeches, or for leftists from anywhere in the world to come and tell them how much they admire the resilience of the Cuban people.
Cuban mothers do not want admiration. They want decent housing, raise their children without the burden of queues and blackouts, access a well-stocked health system, pay for their family’s well-being with their salary, without having to depend on a foreign currency. They want, in fact, to exchange with the admirers of the Antillean resilience, to give them the opportunity to taste what real socialism tastes like, and ask themselves if this ruin is what they want for their countries instead of imperfect, true, but functional democracies. .
It has already been said before in these pages: beware of the pain of Cuban mothers. Beware of the frustration caused by seeing a child full of pimples and drowning in tears without a cream to relieve the itching. Beware of the impotence of seeing a child point out the candy that you cannot buy him, because if you do, neither you nor he will eat for a week. The mothers just keep quiet and put up with it for fear of leaving their offspring unprotected. Be careful with that anger that grows inward, because one of these days, also for your children, it will explode.
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