SANTA CLARA, Cuba. – In a lengthy Facebook post, the director of the group Teatro del Viento Freddys Nuñez Estenoz spoke about the recent elections in the countryalso echoing many of the opinions of “ordinary Cubans”, as he said.
The playwright titled his text “Cuba is my house” and compared the management of a country with that of a home, with its differences in proportions, and where factors such as the diversity of its members or the relationship system created from the education. In this regard, he mentions that both empathy, leadership and the ability to build alternatives constitute determining values for the development of a healthy home.
“I confess that yesterday while I was watching television and observing the creation of the new National Assembly, I had a glimmer of hope, like so many other Cubans I was waiting for renewal,” Núñez Estenoz wrote.
“Even many of those who are linked to the political sphere expected renewal, I don’t understand how if there are so many of us who yesterday expected renewal in one of the main leadership positions in the country, everything remained intact. And our voice? Our opinion?” she questioned.
Later, the man from Camagüey declared that these are not times for speeches or applause or to continue repeating structures and models that time and practice have shown do not work: “And I wonder, what do they applaud, pain is not applauded”, he added .
According to Núñez Estenoz, real transformations are needed, not symbolic ones, in which words are superfluous and concrete actions appear that favor those who have opted to remain and build in the country.
He also considered that these are not times for praise and that it is urgent to build a space for dialogue in which everyone can collaborate from their dissimilar experiences since, in his opinion, “there can be no development without contradiction.”
“The solution to our problems cannot continue to be resisting, resisting, prolonged resistance is the most direct path to losing faith and one of the fundamental pillars of our social system is faith, what to do when it evaporates, it fades?” runs down the sewer?”
“Cuba is my home, my house is Cuba,” reiterated the artist whose works have always been described as controversial for addressing issues such as emigration, acts of repudiation or the hopelessness of youth.
In his publication, Núñez Estenoz also called for reconciliation: “I am not going to denigrate any son of this land, whatever his political point of view, too much hatred and intolerance inhabits us as a nation and I am not going to fan the fire ”.
At the end of his text, the director of Teatro del Viento mentioned that it is due to the public, the main reason why he will continue “swimming against the current” or “rehearsing in the dark in a theater with a cardboard wall of recovered boxes.”
“I am still here, betting on Cuba, on the future, because even in the most absolute darkness, I still have some faith. Let us participate, Cuba belongs to all of us, to all of us…”, he concluded.
