"What we have right now"
A gloomy silence takes over the evenings of the city.
A darkness that perpetuates itself, enters and threatens us.
Beyond the slogans and the Marches, nothing coherent is heard to be said, other than public expressions that time has taught us to interpret as answers without directly knowing the questions.
We, those who do not decide those who place us to pay the bills and debts of those who decide for us, do not have the opportunity to speak. To give an opinion or to find alternatives.
I don't want a rifle nor do I want bullets. No foreign intervention or trenches, no fire falling on what is already destroyed to destroy it even more.
Nor to threaten an exhausted and impoverished people, victims of everything that happens.
Of wrong decisions on the one hand, and threats on the other.
They want desperation to throw us into the streets to claim what everyone knows we demand with the silence of those who have no voice.
That we claim what they never claimed and we do.
We will not be protected with a rifle, tanks or planes.
Nor will there be a trench to protect us even if we win the battle.
Because we have been losing the real war since we abandoned reason and gave way to whims. Since the most important thing is a single criterion and not us.
I once said that the necessary changes had to be made by us before others did.
Right now, today, at this moment, we are only uncertainty for some and a lot of desperation for the majority.
Let's talk to each other and change everything that needs to change.
Death will not be a solution even though in many situations it is almost a relief.
Where are we going?
If we are sincere and honest with our reality, we will have to recognize the paralysis of national life as well as the subordination of our lives to the maintenance of a state of affairs that contradicts dialectics.
This narrow and dead-end alley in which the Cuban economy finds itself, which constitutes the only possible basis to overcome the dramatic reality we are experiencing, finds no possible way out beyond the traditional ideological discourse, but without concrete proposals, which if they exist the people do not know them.
People, fed up with so many needs and miseries, the only way they have to alleviate their sorrows is by shouting, protesting or showing their desperation wherever they can.
Responding with threats, persecution and jail is the worst option that power has to calm so much justified and just social uncertainty.
A government of the people and for the people has the mission of making them participate in the decisions that involve them, otherwise they position themselves as their main adversary even if their intentions were the best.
In extreme times like the ones we are experiencing, empathy towards those who suffer from all kinds of shortages is essential, they are not simple ideological or political enemies, they are citizens without answers, without a present, and we cannot talk about the future without taking into account today's reality.
My intention with this text is to call for a stop to the pressure and persecution of those who dissent. It is their right.
Every act of threat or intimidation to the one who protests or expresses himself is an affront to freedom, and no social system whose basis is based on denying the right to cry out in the face of pain can survive.
The only way to silence that clamor is to demonstrate that there is a project that involves us all towards the improvement of life, towards more real freedoms, because freedom is the only and legitimate engine of development.
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