TO THE GREEN OLIVE WORNS AND MININT OFFICIALS WHO PLACED WI FI BEFORE ANYONE.

TO THE GREEN OLIVES WORN AND MININT OFFICIALS WHO PLACED WI FI BEFORE ANYONE.

  It is easy to criticize the Castro Communism after we went into exile. The difficult thing was to have BALLS... when we were locked in the Castro hell. 

  For my part, I raised my voice in the hospital in defense of Human Rights and for that reason, denounced by a nursing assistant - Guillermina or something like that, I had to go to the police to explain. 

  The State Security official was a bunch without culture.We engaged in a discussion in a dispute over what was Heterodoxy and Orthodoxy, terms that he himself did not know. 

  Thanks to the Catholic Church that he knew that I was a lay militant. He let me go. Not without first warning me that if I spoke again about human rights another rooster would sing.

   I respect the Cuban exile who remains silent, without criticism or a note against communism. Of course, there have been so many years of fear in Cuba that they remain silent, lest they be denied entry to Cuba to see a loved one they left behind or simply because they educate their children by removing all reference to their Cuban roots. Even Spanish is forbidden. Your grandchildren will cry for that little bug they carry inside and the Cuban culture will emerge, there is no escape, you are Cuban for 5 generations and you will ask about that little island to your grandparents who believed they had already extinguished you. And the questions will come.

  Divide et impera, a phrase of dubious origin attributed to the Roman emperor and dictator Julio César, summarizes the strategy with which the rulers of our nation and those who aspire to be are directing and encouraging us. His plan is to indispose us against each other. They achieve their goal by confronting different groups, or throwing society in general on top of a particular group.Its objective is for citizens to raise their accusing finger against each other, even becoming a human pack to hunt for the politicians to indicate. With this they try to divert our attention from the cloud of misery and rot that surrounds them.

   All in order to prevent the governed from pointing them out and expelling them, because of their demonstrated ineptitude and ineffectiveness, from their comfortable armchairs.

  Some doctors even fear that State Security - that diabolical machine - do not communicate with me. But in spite of everything I have 188,678 visits to my blogs, even from Nigeria.

  The Cuban government saw what the Internet would mean for Cubans, a greater freedom of information and to know a world that was previously unknown. 

   Already Diaz-Canel said time ago that the battle for ideas in cyberspace would be the main objective in the future.So he installed the Internet - to access Facebook - to the olive tree worms in the first place before ETESA consolidated. to the Presidents of the block committees, MININT officers, to members of the Communist Party-or to the climbers like the director of the hospital where I worked who was offered a higher position within the communist organization-all before the thing was it would generalize to the simple people, but that they had CUC to finance the interconnection that later was more expensive than food or clothing.

 The battle of ideas began online. And Diaz-Canel promised in his first tweet that he would read the complaints of the subjugated people. None of that happened. His tweets are simple propaganda for Castroism, Chavez, Daniel Ortega and finally, the indefensible: Nicolás Maduro. And to make a treacherous list of those who tweeted him.

   Now he says that Cuba "does not have military troops in Venezuela" but it does have officials who are going to carry the "Cultura inside" which is the same.

  I identified from the beginning on Facebook those who had Internet of the first diazepam agents-and I also send the link of my last blog to read how political satire and humor are also a weapon of struggle. Something will make them reflect.

  Meanwhile, since they do not let me into Cuba-another way to violate my human rights-I send a pair of flip-flops to Mama, or some shorts, dollars to my son with Juanita or Sultanita who, always silent, do let them in.

    Cuba price to pay for making my satires and Cuban humor stories that hurt the regime, without which I can do anything. I live in a democratic country where you can speak badly or of the same president without anyone chasing you.

  And the Cuban people do not take it from us, it is rooted in our chest, like that of our José Martí, who fought to die for a free pen and a country without tyranny.

  Do not be afraid. A drop of sand fills the glass.

   Our zigzagging paths to freedom are terrible and exhausting. But our children and grandchildren will enjoy a free Cuba one day

SOCIALISM : SIXTY YEARS OF EXPERIMENTATION?

       SOCIALISM: SIXTY YEARS OF EXPERIMENTATIONS?

  The Princess Commander of the Castroises has said in a long interview to a flattering journalist that there is no perfect socialism: there are experiments.

   We are sweet Mariela that also communism in Europe was also "an experiment" until it imploded on its own. After Stalin sent millions to death without hesitation and Fidel and his clique, to the revolutionary triumph "experiment" with men and women who went to the wall without even a fair trial and then eliminated the opposition by emigrate a million and a half Cubans into exile, creating their own enemy.

  That is experimentation or method of trial and error for not clearly reading the biblical texts or the Marxism-Leninism that peaked without even consulting the people.

  Now you defend the homosexuals - very praiseworthy thing of your part - but you do not speak in your interviews of young spokesperson of the Cuban socialism of how they have deceived the people for sixty years, taking advantage of the compulsion of the masses to obey a charismatic leader and not have access to alternative information.

  You set the example of the Netherlands to attack freedom of the press. You do not know that in free countries you can create parties, groupings, opposite press, etc. And that by popular vote can change the prevailing system.

   We have many examples in Cuba: repression of dissidence-you say that the empire pays them- and what they will live if the revolutionary state denies them a job or a position because they think differently.

  You think Cubans are ignorant even though we are afraid - a people with fear is the best mode of modern slavery - and you at the head of Cenesex paint yourself as an "advance" of human rights without mentioning the other rights that the UN approved years ago.

  And Fidel and Raúl were homophobes, a lot of vagrants and homosexuals were locked in the concentration camps to work and to abolish that tendency. Experimentation?

  There has not even been a debate on whether homosexuality is a choice of life or is congenital. You have backward scientific information.Neither the population had an option in the approval of the new constitution. You was not given alternative information about what each item really meant.

   And your beloved mother's FMC did not solve the aspirations of the new generation of Cuban women who did not feel represented except to applaud Castro's speeches.

   And the people hungry. How long are you going to continue experimenting with new alternative foods?

  Here we do agree: hunger for the people: Why do not you talk about that and do not worry about the thousands of Cubans who dare to cross the jungle of Brazil in search of new horizons, where they do not experience so much?

          Orlando Vicente Alvarez

ELECTORAL PROPAGAGANDA IN MALDONADO HOSPITAL,PUNTA DEL ESTE?

  ELECTORAL PROPAGANDA IN MALDONADO HOSPITAL, PUNTA DEL ESTE?  
  

 Today I caught the attention of propaganda posters attached to all the cristals of the 17 windows that the bureaucratic staff has to attend to the public of the Maldonado Hospital.

  First of all, I want to tell you that I live in a democratic country 25 years ago, with Uruguayan nationality and that I have already voted for my favorite party twice, so I am not surprised by the posters or the leaflets everywhere when an election is approaching or referendum.

  The posters I saw were for a leftist candidate G. G. whose slogan read "Change the Head". But how, we had gone back to the seventeenth century when the French revolution inaugurated the guillotine to cut heads right and left - Castro reminds me to cut the head to anyone who no longer served him - and now this lady of the left party whose name is not  fair to mention that you could not think of another phrase about "a washing of a cherry or you will lose your head" but I am enthroned in power.

  I went to one of the windows-the only one that catered to the public on the first day of Holy Week-and I told her, after telling me that the laboratory was closed for a week:

   - Could not you be so kind to give me a turn with G.G?. I need it.

  -With whom? What Doctor is that?

  -That  is in all the posters right here on the glass of your office. I feel that I have to change my mind, because mine is getting sicker and sicker. And as the political lady says to change the head ...

  -I do not know what you're talking about. If she is not a doctor, go to the hospital director.

 .-But how do you put political posters everywhere and you have not noticed which one you will vote for?

  -That's none of my business. And leave me alone with your jokes that I'm not for that now.

   I retired quickly from the window and went to the pharmacy. A lady no longer young attended to the public. I noticed that among the many posters that presented the Cedula, the recipes and others that were repeated there was no space left to place another poster of the candidate for a high political position. She gave me the medications but finally I could not contain my verbiage:

  - Could you please give me a dose of G.G-I mencioned. the name of the politicician-?

  -What medication is that? I never heard it!

  -It is the policy that propagandizes throughout the hospital, even knowing that it is a neutral territory, apolitical and can not take advantage of the naivety of so many elderly ...

  -Ahh ... I do not know. I do not get involved in politics, besides, I am from the B ... -other Party- and I do not vote for the above mentioned.

  -"Thank you very much, pale, for being so understanding.And I left the hospital. I saw a large sign outside claiming better salaries for the administrative person and I took pity on them.

  I left the hospital and almost fell on top of two ladies sitting under a tree:"Jehovah's witness?"- I ask.

  -Well, yes-they said proudly-do you want any of these magazines?

  I excused myself quickly. Even the Witnesses use their methods of proselytizing as knowing that they know everything and that the final hecatomb will be almost  tomorrow.

  I went calm for my house. With my head well placed on my shoulders and my mind free, free, of no dogma except the one my aunt Gladys taught me about Roman Catholicism.

  But living in a democracy that my country of origin does not know yet.