For your safety, Rodolfo Peraza , La Habana, 2008
One day a friend told me the story of the little pigs reared under a sink in an apartment in Havana - one of those piglets whose vocal cords are cut so they do not make noise during the few months where they are fattened at home.
The apartments are small, housing is a recurring problem. In short, he had been placed under a sink, so it does not bother too much. He had grown up, grown without ever leaving his corner, unable to move. Christmas arrives, its time has come, vaya a lechon para Navidad !
is the fate to kill and eat. And there, disgusting vision: the animal had the spine twisted the plug from the sink, his body had grown up around, deformed, a large hole in the middle of the back. Animal denatured monstrously adapted to its conditions.
I sometimes feel that the Cubans are thus deformed inside. At first glance, it is not noticeable. They adapt to the conditions within which they live and grow, and grow crooked, bifid. For many, the words are hollow, do not make sense, the commitments are worthless, they abdicate any form of personal responsibility. And when
asked to come and participate in the spoils against people they do not know, to play their role in disaster simulation which also encloses general, they obey like robots, total : if no one is responsible nothing chico, and if everybody is rotten. Almost a fun finally. Not to mention the advantages and underground in the accounts of petty ideological merit (a telephone line, an authorization for a scholarship abroad, a little power ... the range is wide when everything is in receivership).
Two weeks ago, while Yoani was leaving to join a demonstration unpublished organized by Omni among other things, she was abducted in a car by segurosos , hit and threatened. One of the guys in civilian clothes, was identified as "Officer Rodney , photo support. Reinaldo's husband Yoani, then publicly made an appointment to the famous Rodney, he comes to explain this sadistic violence against a woman, the bear in person.
The rendezvous was fixed at the corner of G and 23 on Friday night. And then, surprise: a festival of youth out of the hat authorities, same time, same place, announced the day before the news. And "the people" gathered for the occasion, so attentive, so spontaneous , immediately recognized (but how?) The "mercenaries" who were standing there, and launched one of these acto de repudio which Cuba has sad paternity.
Well, that's how it works. There are handling and acceptance of handling, and the assembly is to vomit.
And above that, in this environment venomous, jealousy, pettiness, the divisions that do not even have to be handled, human nature being what it is.
