I like the complicity of my terrace, especially at that time when I don’t know if it’s day or night, and the city wakes up smelling of the sea and freshly brewed coffee. In front of me the Capitol is projected with its golden dome and its monumental architecture, which not only dwarfs man, but also hides a city that suffers from neglect, heartbreak and the incompetence of a government more interested in appearances than in realities.
Upon your arrival, gentlemen touristsThey will find buildings gnawed by 60 years of indolence. With their cracks and exposed steels descending to their foundations, weakening their structures and causing them to collapse in some cases without warning. Landslides that condemn humble and working families to live in shelters, which look more like ghettos than temporary homes.
You can search, investigate, find those families who live in deplorable conditions in marginal neighborhoods that do not even imagine that they can exist in the “Cuban paradise” that was described to them in the travel agency. If they do, they will discover people whose hope dies in the archives of oblivion or in the worn-out cliché of the lack of resources produced by a blockade that only seems to exist for the most humble sector of society.
Gentlemen tourists, you will find buildings gnawed by 60 years of indolence. With its cracks and steels exposed
You should know beforehand that the ultra-worn excuse of the lack of resources was disproved when in 1991 they squandered millions to satisfy the pride of a dictator egocentric, hypocritical and liar. And it is an easily dismountable lie if we take calculations of the number of luxury hotels that are built in a few months. From those same terraces, they will be able to appreciate with their own eyes the harsh reality that the media under the control of the dictatorship tries to hide from the world.
You, as I watch from my beloved terrace, will witness how the cancer of abandonment and indolence devours a city left to its own devices and where the few resources that exist are sold in the currency of the American enemy.
Its cameras will show the world the great scam of this failed and outdated system, designed to limit man’s progress in order to subdue and make him dependent. So I invite you all, camera in hand, to seek and show the world the fallacy.
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