Havana, Cuba. – Who did not mention, at least once, to that salt that is part of life? Who did not cuó his minor grains with the tip of a finger to take it to the tip of the tongue? And it is that salt has great resonances; The salt of life has repercussions to pile. Salt, there are those who say, it is life, and that gives us more life, and so much so that we go out to look for it when it is lost.
The salt of life is all that is good, and what is great; The salt of life is the love and encounter of lovers who undress to join the bodies and live life, to make life in the midst of the most tender nude. Salt is knowledge and is enjoyment. Salt is even resurrection.
The salt of life is knowledge, and is also in the flavors that she fixes, in the flavors that improves. Salt is that very fine and very white granulated that comes out of the sea and is essential. The salt is much more than slight grains that we tracked between two fingers to spread it, and with the tip of two fingers, on some meals, even about the softness of the flavors of some fruits. A guava becomes richer if you add a salt pinch.
Salt is life, and has its greatest resonances in the kitchen, and much more when it disappears, because it does not come to the winery or find it in the MSMEs, because it also disappeared from the spiritual centers, and then you do not remain Another remedy to eat the “unfortunate” beans. And the salt has been lost in Cuba. He is no longer in the salt shaker that we move to leave the granulated, when you tell him: “Get out of there!
The salt has been lost, you no longer see it in the salt shaker that you move, that you smell, and it makes everything reverbere inside you, and again you put your eyes on the salt shaker, and you tell him stronger even “get out of there”, And all reverbera inside you, and full of curses the casseroles and abominas to the government that is the only guilty, even the disappearance of the salt you dreamed of dropping the egg, the guava.
Agitas the salt shaker; Once, two, many, but the salt does not come out, and shout to the granulated target that you suppose “get out of there”, but nothing comes out of salt to put the egg, and stirus the salt shaker, and scream high “salt from there” , but nothing comes out, much less salt.
And then you are looking in the street, to fish it in the sea if necessary, and you offer; You buy it, you change it if necessary, you offer anything for a salt miringing, because to unravel it is already enough with communism. And you have no choice but to keep looking and touch on another door, and then to another, and a neighbor smiles sly and tells you that if you get a mixture.
And shout again and again, while batting the vessel, and shouts, imperative, and without hope “get out of there.” And there is no salt, there is no salt in this country surrounded by salt water everywhere. And even the slightest among all the salt grains that should join the spices, which are also scarce and slight aromas does not appear. There is no salt anywhere and, as if that were not enough, you find out a misfortune. Someone let you know that three members of the same family They were intoxicated by the ingestion of food that were cooked with nitro salt.
Two of the poisoned, a 25 -year -old woman, and a five -year -old girl, died in the Polyclinic “Andrés Ortiz” in Guanabacoa, and also ill a man of the same family. Two other people are receiving medical attention in hospitals in the capital.
In this country surrounded by seawater everywhere, you do not get a granite of salt so that the food becomes tolerable, edible; You don’t have a simple grain, and buy what they sell you, without regard, because your family is hungry, and salt is essential, and for it you die.
And the sea had to shrink a little. The sea, that of the many profits, had to cry because a government misses its resources, its attributes. And we think about the Virgilio Piñera again that made us notice our “damn circumstance of water everywhere”, in all corners of this island, where salt disappears and that is why Cubans die that, desperate, confuse the salt of the salt of Life with the salt of death. And that is Cuba right now.
