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<h1 class="reader-title">3528. Cuba: A Scream</h1>
<div class="credits reader-credits">By Leonardo Padura, La Joven
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<p><span><a
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<p><span><span>(Photo: Eliana Aponte / AP)</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>It seems very possible that
everything that happened in Cuba since last </span><a
href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=es&tl=en&ajax=1&elem=1&se=1&u=https://elcomercio.pe/mundo/latinoamerica/protestas-en-cuba-la-habana-y-otras-ciudades-sacudidas-por-manifestaciones-ineditas-contra-el-gobierno-de-miguel-diaz-canel-patria-y-vida-fotos-y-videos-sosmatanzas-soscuba-noticia/?foto%3D15"
rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>Sunday,
July 11</span><span>,</span></a><span> has been
encouraged by a greater or lesser number of people
opposed to the system, even paid some of them,
with the intention of destabilizing the country
and causing a situation of chaos and unsafety. It
is also true that later, as often happens in these
events, opportunistic and regrettable acts of
vandalism occurred. But I think that neither
evidence takes one iota of reason from the scream
that we have heard. A cry that is also the result
of the desperation of a society that is going
through not only a long economic crisis and a
punctual health crisis, but also a </span><a
href="https://jovencuba-com.translate.goog/estallido-social/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=ajax,elem"
rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">crisis of
confidence</a><span> and a loss of expectations.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span>To this desperate claim, the Cuban
authorities should not respond with the usual
slogans, repeated for years, and with the answers
that these authorities want to hear. Not even with
explanations, however convincing and necessary they
may be. What is imposed are the solutions that many
citizens expect or demand, some demonstrating in the
street, others giving their opinion on social
networks and expressing their disappointment or
disagreement, many counting the few and devalued
pesos that they have in their impoverished pockets
and many, many more, queuing in resigned silence for
several hours in the sun or rain, including a
pandemic, queues at markets to buy food, queues at
pharmacies to buy medicines, queues to reach our
daily bread and for everything imaginable and
necessary.</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><img alt="Scream (2)"
src="https://i2.wp.com/jovencuba.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/diaz-canel-tv_f-captura-pantalla-pl.jpg?resize=873%2C581&ssl=1"
width="873" height="581"></span></span></p>
<p id="gmail-caption-attachment-35517"><span><span>"(...)
the Cuban authorities should not respond with the
usual slogans, repeated for years ..." (Photo:
Canal Caribe)</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>I think that no one with a minimum
feeling of belonging, with a sense of sovereignty,
with a civic responsibility can want (or even
believe) that the solution to these problems comes
from any type of </span><a
href="https://jovencuba-com.translate.goog/derechos-intervenciones-corredores/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=ajax,elem"
rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>foreign
intervention</span></a><span>, much less of a
military nature, such as some have come to ask,
and that, it is also true, represents a threat
that is still a possible scenario.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span>I also believe that any Cuban inside or
outside the island knows that the US commercial and
financial blockade or embargo, whatever you want to
call it, is real and has become internationalized
and intensified in recent years and that it is too
heavy a burden for the Cuban economy ( as it would
be for any other economy). Those who live outside
the island and today want to help their relatives in
the midst of a critical situation, have been able to
verify that it exists and how much it exists when
they are practically unable to send a remittance to
their relatives, just to mention a situation that
affects Many. It is an old policy that, by the way
(sometimes some forget it) practically everyone has
condemned for many years in successive United
Nations assemblies.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>And I don't think anyone can deny that a
media campaign has also been unleashed in which,
even in the grossest ways, false information has
been released that at the beginning and end only
serves to diminish the credibility of its managers.</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><img alt="Scream (1)"
src="https://i2.wp.com/jovencuba.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/L7GM6A2YDRCIJDD6GF2BF5PK3M.jpg?resize=980%2C598&ssl=1"
width="980" height="598"></span></span></p>
<p id="gmail-caption-attachment-35512"><span><span>«(…)
Neither one nor the other evidence takes away an
iota of reason from the scream that we have
heard. A cry that is also the result of the
desperation of a society… »(Photo: Yamil Lage /
AFP)</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span>But I believe, along with all of the
above, that Cubans need to regain hope and have a
possible image of their future. If hope is lost,
the meaning of any humanist social project is
lost. And hope is not recovered by force. You are
rescued and fed with those solutions and changes
and </span><a
href="https://jovencuba-com.translate.goog/cuba-incendio-san-antonio/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=ajax,elem"
rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span>social
dialogues</span></a><span>, which, by not
arriving, have caused, among many other
devastating effects, the migratory anxieties of so
many Cubans and now provoked the cry of despair of
people among whom there were surely paid people
and opportunistic criminals, although I refuse to
believe that in my country, at this point, there
may be so many people, so many people born and
educated among us who sell themselves or commit
crimes. Because if it were, it would be the result
of the society that has fostered them.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span><span>The spontaneous way, without being tied to
any leadership, without receiving anything in return
or stealing anything along the way, with which a
notable number of people have also demonstrated in
the streets and on the networks, should be a warning
and I think it is an alarming sample of the
distances that have been opened between the leading
political spheres and the street (and this has even
been recognized by Cuban leaders). And it is only in
this way that it is explained that what has happened
has happened, especially in a country where almost
everything is known when it wants to be known, as we
all also know.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>To convince and calm those desperate, the
method cannot be the solutions of force and
darkness, such as imposing the digital blackout that
has cut off the communications of many for days, but
that nevertheless has not impeded the connections of
those who want to say something, in favor or
opposing. Much less can the violent response,
especially against non-violent people, be used as a
convincing argument. And it is already known that
violence can be not only physical.</span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><img alt="Scream (3)"
src="https://i0.wp.com/jovencuba.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/DYH2AHJIFBAGBEGGZ2M7S6QJD4.jpg?resize=880%2C468&ssl=1"
width="880" height="468"></span></span></p>
<p id="gmail-caption-attachment-35519"><span><span><span>"</span><span>Much
less can the violent response, especially
against non-violent people, be used as a
convincing </span></span></span></p>
<p id="gmail-caption-attachment-35519"><span><span><span>argument." (Photo:
Yamil Lage / AFP)</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span>Many things seem to be at stake
today. Perhaps even if calm returns after the
storm. Perhaps the extremists and fundamentalists
will not be able to impose their extremist and
fundamentalist solutions, and a dangerous state of
hatred that has been growing in recent years will
not take root.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>But, in any case, it is necessary for
solutions to arrive, responses that should not only
be of a material nature but also of a political
nature, and thus an inclusive and better Cuba can
address the reasons for this cry of despair and loss
of hope. that, silently but with force, since before
July 11, many of our compatriots had been giving
those laments that were not heard and from whose
rains these muds arose. </span></span></p>
<p><span><span>As a Cuban who lives in Cuba and works and
believes in Cuba, I assume that it is my right to
think and express my opinion about the country in
which I live, work and where I believe. I know that
in times like this and trying to express an opinion,
it often happens that "You are always reactionary
for someone and red for someone," as Claudio Sánchez
Albornoz once said. I also take that risk, as a man
who pretends to be free, who hopes to be more and
more free.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>In Mantilla, July 15, 2021.</span></span></p>
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