The Cuban artist Armando Tejuca has drawn a poster entitled You five nine I double two, sixty years locked the dominoes in reference to one of the phrases of the song Homeland and Life. In it you can see the dark and cracked five-nine chip, while the double two has the colors of the Cuban flag and stands luminous on top of the other. The image, broadcast by the Facebook and Twitter accounts of the US embassy on the island, has generated a wide debate between critics and defenders of the regime.
“US diplomats, you are pitiful, you continue to highlight four cats that meow from exile, but without the coj… to come and fight here. On the other hand, your government bets on another group of losers, the dissidents. Here is Revolution for a while. Homeland or Death, We will win, “writes a user. “It would be an excellent idea for every free Cuban to post and replicate this work so that it can be seen as the wonderful song that inspired said work was heard,” another responds.
Among those who have commented from the ruling party are some communicators such as Oni Acosta Llerena, a very popular music critic on national television
Among those who have commented from the ruling party are some communicators such as Oni Acosta Llerena, a very popular music critic on national television who has asked the Embassy to “improve and elevate” his tastes “as soon as possible”, or Eduardo Palomares, a correspondent for Granma in Santiago de Cuba, which has urged the diplomatic headquarters to give its opinion on the deaths of children by firearms that occur in the United States, the secret documents that Donald Trump had in his Florida residence in Florida or “the imprisonment of Latino children in cages,” among other things.
Many comments accuse the US of being guilty, with the embargo, of “blocking” the Island, which has also provoked many responses. “Everything comes from the US, don’t you see the stores on-line with products from here and other countries? Equipment and items of all kinds enter through the shipping agencies, shipments of dollars, the chicken that enters the town is American…. Don’t be fooled anymore. The Marxist-Leninist demagoguery is over. Communism is a utopia,” snaps a reader.
And although some have made it ugly that a diplomatic headquarters is positioned in this way in front of the government in which it is, others have thanked the opposition for being supported, as they summarize messages like this: “That’s right, that song is an anthem for the vast majority of Cubans that we fight for a Cuba free of dictatorship”.
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