SOCIETY

A story that is startling, perhaps because it can be the reality of many Cuban homes. At first glance it is a Havana family like any other; marked routines, consistent hierarchies, and poor social life.

The reading of this text by Dr. Rolando Naranjo, neurologist and anthropologist, on the loss of illusion is simple and timely. The specialist assures that “nothing is absolutely guaranteed in society, everything requires courage, sometimes daring”.

The sharp humor of maestro Héctor Zumbado

Perhaps in our country, as perhaps in few places in the world, the choice to move to another place, or to stay there, has had multiple and complicated connotations, especially in the last six decades. A universal, natural process, such as that of emigration, in Cuba has been, at times, the same silenced or rarefied as even sought or celebrated. Some time, some hope, some horizon, should come closer from time to time and convince us that one day, perhaps the comings will become less necessary, or perhaps, less painful and definitive. Who knows, maybe, by then, maybe even all the comebacks will be more possible.

From an ethical approach, Professor Teresa Díaz Canals warns us of the danger of perceiving the human from the representation configured in a discourse. “The human, if it is human, must also express the failure of all representation. If the human is translated into a mere concept, it becomes a mechanism of exclusion, of violence, of inhumanity. There are no unique ways to live, to exist. It is about society being appropriate to the person, their appropriate space and not their place of torment. “

It is sad, but undeniable, that difficult times bring out the worst qualities of many human beings. Both people and nations exacerbate their selfishness for the sake of survival or sometimes in the worst manifestations, they do so for the cruder and most crazy self-benefit, no matter what or who may be harmed in the process. On the other hand, fortunately, there are those who then tree the best of values and decide to give of themselves for others.

These are not noble times for the elderly. Nor are they for those who carry the responsibility of caring for and caring for an elderly person. With the current increases in all prices, it is almost unaffordable to pay a caregiver. Asylums, except for those that are very renowned or cared for by religious entities, in addition to not reaching their capacities and not everyone agrees, they still generally do not meet a standard that is reassuring for family members who place an elderly person in the care of these institutions .

As you read these lines, it is very possible that some institution, or someone covered by any provision of one of these, is cutting down a tree in the Cuban capital. In recent days, a wave of less than genocidal violence has risen in Havana against these useful, but defenseless, green allies. In social networks there are many calls, complaints, complaints and even the copy of responses and statements from various instances questioned on the matter. However, there is still no clear and forceful government pronouncement on the subject.

As far as we know, no historian interested in the centuries-old Centuries’s centuries-old woodpecher life has addressed the figure of Isidoro Lombera Brown, named in his time The Father of Cats and very present in the capital in the first two decades of that century. His personal history and philanthropic actions lie in oblivion. Rescuing your figure is the target of these lines.

Too much has already been written, too many wounds come afloat yet, when the rallies of repudiation of that year 80 are remembered, when those who left the country by the Mariel were offended, uninuneted and even physically assaulted for their thinking and their desire to live elsewhere. Still, every once in a while, someone apologizes to someone. Are we witnessing the return of such aberrations? Does the purpose of defending a just, human cause, as Cuban socialism is proclaimed, justify the means of abusing, abusing, invading the portal of a home where there are women and children, however opposition they may be?