Four of\u00a0the\u00a0five Cuban security\u00a0agents\u00a0imprisoned in the United States,\u00a0serving visibly\u00a0excessive\u00a0sentences for the\u00a0legal\u00a0violations\u00a0they\u00a0committed still remain there. Among\u00a0manydecent\u00a0reasons, which were then\u00a0publicly\u00a0crucified\u00a0with\u00a0laudatory\u00a0campaigns\u00a0and posters,\u00a0one might wonder whether\u00a0the initiative proposed by\u00a0Ren\u00e9\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez,\u00a0sending a message\u00a0to the American people\u00a0through their\u00a0own symbols,\u00a0is really genuine.<\/p>\n
Cuba\u00a0has\u00a0used many times\u00a0a generous idea\u00a0as confirmation of\u00a0a system,\u00a0a particular conflict\u00a0as an icon\u00a0of a whole,\u00a0of a\u00a0unanimous\u00a0welfare,\u00a0and therefore the\u00a0question\u00a0is notoutlandish.\u00a0The\u00a0child Eli\u00e1n\u00a0had to\u00a0return to\u00a0Cardenas, but\u00a0that did not mean, as\u00a0we now know,\u00a0and\u00a0as it was\u00a0said,\u00a0that socialism\u00a0would have\u00a0an irreversible character.<\/p>\n
Rene Gonzalez’s proposal\u00a0is,\u00a0in principle,\u00a0wise,\u00a0perhaps the\u00a0most sensible proposal\u00a0at\u00a0propagandistic\u00a0level\u00a0this crusade has had.\u00a0There is a\u00a0direct relationship between gloating\u00a0and clumsiness\u00a0as methods\u00a0and freedom\u00a0as an end.\u00a0For each\u00a0symposium\u00a0on the Cuban Five\u00a0organized in\u00a0Los Arabos\u00a0or\u00a0Camajuan\u00ed,\u00a0for every\u00a0opportunist who\u00a0dedicated them\u00a0a diplomain\u00a0the\u00a0CDR\u00a0(Spanish acronym for Committees for the Defense of the Revolution)\u00a0or\u00a0ANAP (National Association of Small Farmers),\u00a0for each\u00a0punctilious\u00a0and useless\u00a0nationalrepetition,\u00a0these men\u00a0accumulated\u00a0a month\u00a0in jail,\u00a0lost\u00a0one more\u00a0meter\u00a0of space,\u00a0or a\u00a0light\u00a0quadrant.<\/p>\n
You can not\u00a0believe\u00a0too much\u00a0to\u00a0newspapers and news\u00a0that\u00a0every\u00a0three weeks, for\u00a0the most\u00a0convoluted\u00a0reason,\u00a0convene for a meeting.\u00a0I understood-tossing aside\u00a0my growingskepticism,\u00a0that the proposal\u00a0of\u00a0Ren\u00e9\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez\u00a0was a\u00a0genuine proposal\u00a0when\u00a0I\u00a0found\u00a0offenders from Centro Habana municipality,\u00a0who have nothing\u00a0to lose,\u00a0and therefore\u00a0nothing tosimulate,\u00a0dressed in\u00a0yellow without\u00a0that to\u00a0imply a\u00a0homage to\u00a0Oshun. M\u00a0ulatto women\u00a0wearing yellow headbands and blouses\u00a0and men with\u00a0shirts\u00a0or T-shirts in the same color, despite many wore ridiculous signs.\u00a0But\u00a0we will have to\u00a0forgive this\u00a0exotic detail\u00a0.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0success of this event\u00a0demonstrates not\u00a0only that,\u00a0its\u00a0success,\u00a0but also\u00a0the complete failure\u00a0of the previous ones.\u00a0How\u00a0could\u00a0Ren\u00e9\u00a0Gonzalez\u2019s proposal have\u00a0such\u00a0massive\u00a0naturewithout the help\u00a0of the\u00a0trade unions,\u00a0and\u00a0so spontaneous\u00a0large-scale demonstration, despite\u00a0unions? The general impression is\u00a0that this man\u00a0had to come, who\u00a0obviously\u00a0knew what he was\u00a0saying,\u00a0and\u00a0what he was feeling,\u00a0to take his own cause\u00a0and\u00a0rescue\u00a0it from the muddy\u00a0advertising\u00a0in which it had been sunk by the\u00a0socialism marketing.<\/p>\n
Let us read an excerpt of his speech, televised on September 3rd<\/sup>: “I have only one personal exhortation for the people (…) I want the country, on September 12, full of yellow ribbons and that foreign visitors or correspondents who will be on the island can not ignore that. I wish that day the entire island to shake and that yellow ribbons to appear on trees, balconies, in people, everywhere, in pets, as you decide, I want these yellow ribbons to fill the country for this event can not be ignored, for the whole world to know that the Cuban people are waiting for four of their sons who are imprisoned in the United States. “<\/p>\n The message is quite simple\u00a0. It\u00a0speaks to people\u00a0providing them a margin for\u00a0choosing\u00a0and\u00a0even\u00a0for non-\u00a0choosing\u00a0and\u00a0consciously\u00a0turns away\u00a0from our\u00a0variegated\u00a0and tediousofficial\u00a0symbolism, from\u00a0the haughty\u00a0speech\u00a0of the Revolution.\u00a0There is a phrase\u00a0from\u00a0a chronicle\u00a0of\u00a0Carpentier that was published\u00a0in Social\u00a0in\u00a0the 1920s,\u00a0and\u00a0that should\u00a0hang\u00a0on a poster\u00a0next\u00a0May 1\u00a0st<\/sup>\u00a0from the top\u00a0of the National Library:\u00a0“Grandiloquence\u00a0is\u00a0anti-human.” From the little I\u00a0know\u00a0about literature and\u00a0history\u00a0-that fiction-no\u00a0relevant\u00a0prisoner\u00a0has ever expressed\u00a0regret\u00a0ostentatiously.\u00a0Some do not\u00a0even mention it.\u00a0If not for\u00a0Josefina\u00a0Licitra,\u00a0we would not have\u00a0found out that\u00a0Pepe\u00a0Mujica, at around\u00a0the\u00a0decades of the\u00a0seventies and the eighties of last century,\u00a0talked\u00a0on\u00a0his cell\u00a0with ants.\u00a0When we read\u00a0something like this\u00a0: that the\u00a0confinement\u00a0of a Tupamaro guerrilla\u00a0and the pain of\u00a0a lost cause\u00a0result in\u00a0an intimate dialogue\u00a0with ants,\u00a0in\u00a0so-\u00a0seemingly-\u00a0insubstantial\u00a0detail,\u00a0we\u00a0have the right to\u00a0doubt our own\u00a0ways.<\/p>\n \nAfter\u00a0the\u00a0multitudinal concert\u00a0offered by several\u00a0artists\u00a0and some\u00a0fashionable\u00a0hucksters\u00a0last\u00a0Thursday\u00a0on behalf\u00a0of the Five,\u00a0and after\u00a0the passionate\u00a0improvisation\u00a0of\u00a0RoberticoCarcasses,\u00a0someone canceled\u00a0the upcoming\u00a0presentations\u00a0of the band Interactivo. Let\u00a0us not abound in the incident,\u00a0but Carcasses is not in any case, by saying\u00a0what he told(“electing the president\u00a0by direct vote\u00a0and\u00a0not\u00a0by\u00a0other\u00a0way (…) neither\u00a0militants\u00a0nor\u00a0dissidents,\u00a0Cubans\u00a0all,\u00a0with\u00a0the same rights\u00a0and I wish the blockade,\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0self-blockade to end”),\u00a0an opportunist\u00a0or\u00a0a mercenary, as he was\u00a0rated by\u00a0some\u00a0offended people.<\/p>\n If so,\u00a0if anyone, protected by\u00a0a power and\u00a0an arrogance\u00a0that at least Cubans have\u00a0not\u00a0approved,\u00a0prohibits\u00a0the\u00a0presentations\u00a0of\u00a0Interactivo\u00a0during\u00a0the following months,\u00a0we would have to\u00a0admit that in\u00a0the name of freedom\u00a0of some,\u00a0the freedom of others is suppressed,\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0logic\u00a0that condemns\u00a0five\u00a0Cuban security\u00a0agents\u00a0to\u00a0excessive\u00a0sentences,\u00a0solely and exclusively\u00a0for being\u00a0Cubans,\u00a0is the same logic\u00a0that\u00a0ruthlessly\u00a0censures\u00a0the audacity\u00a0of an artist, even though boldness\u00a0disturb them\u00a0.<\/p>\n The fact that those people\u00a0who\u00a0so fervently\u00a0endorsed the initiative\u00a0of\u00a0the yellow ribbons,\u00a0now do not claim\u00a0with\u00a0the same passion\u00a0Carcass\u00e9s\u00b4\u00a0integrity,\u00a0is\u00a0a sign of our\u00a0unblemishedopportunism,\u00a0and\u00a0of\u00a0an unconscionable\u00a0cowardice. The worst of\u00a0Cuban polarization is the comfort of its ends, but the best is the most deeply true that can be said today about the country; Cubans must shout in no man’s land without deliberately searching for approval. No matter that you can not be heard, no matter that you have no reference among so many noises.<\/p>\n The highest expression we can achieve as a nation is being reached by a stranger, with his loudly silence, but he can not be heard today. We will realize of that twenty years later, because that stranger, any of us, has given up the marketing, has placed his body in an untouched stretch of water, free of carrion and jackals, and is paying the price of his truth.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four of\u00a0the\u00a0five Cuban security\u00a0agents\u00a0imprisoned in the United States,\u00a0serving visibly\u00a0excessive\u00a0sentences for the\u00a0legal\u00a0violations\u00a0they\u00a0committed still remain there. Among\u00a0manydecent\u00a0reasons, which were then\u00a0publicly\u00a0crucified\u00a0with\u00a0laudatory\u00a0campaigns\u00a0and posters,\u00a0one might wonder whether\u00a0the initiative proposed by\u00a0Ren\u00e9\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez,\u00a0sending a message\u00a0to the American people\u00a0through their\u00a0own symbols,\u00a0is really genuine. Cuba\u00a0has\u00a0used many times\u00a0a generous idea\u00a0as confirmation of\u00a0a system,\u00a0a particular conflict\u00a0as an icon\u00a0of a whole,\u00a0of a\u00a0unanimous\u00a0welfare,\u00a0and therefore the\u00a0question\u00a0is notoutlandish.\u00a0The\u00a0child Eli\u00e1n\u00a0had to\u00a0return to\u00a0Cardenas, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1247,"featured_media":13918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[1065],"ppma_author":[33616],"class_list":["post-14269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-this-mouth-is-mine","tag-yellow-ribbons"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nRen\u00e9\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez\u00a0remained imprisoned\u00a0for\u00a0fifteen years,\u00a0enough proof that\u00a0he\u00a0not only knows\u00a0the pain, the way\u00a0how\u00a0it\u00a0is expressed,\u00a0but also\u00a0that pain\u00a0is precisely its\u00a0form,\u00a0the gestureitself.\u00a0Chekhov\u00a0did not say\u00a0that his character\u00a0was\u00a0sad; he put him to watch\u00a0the moon. As\u00a0I see it,\u00a0the speech\u00a0of\u00a0Ren\u00e9\u00a0Gonz\u00e1lez\u00a0has questioned\u00a0to more than\u00a0a fan\u00a0of distress.\u00a0Has challenged\u00a0dozens of\u00a0well-meaning persons,\u00a0who have yet learned that\u00a0solidarity\u00a0can not be\u00a0manifested\u00a0in the way\u00a0politicians\u00a0speak,\u00a0because that is not\u00a0solidarity,\u00a0is politics; and\u00a0has also questioned\u00a0dozens, thousands of\u00a0evil\u00a0human beings\u00a0that neither\u00a0feel nor suffer,\u00a0but have\u00a0sufficient\u00a0mischievousness\u00a0to become\u00a0ideologically\u00a0reliable,\u00a0because they need to\u00a0savea position, a small\u00a0or medium\u00a0privilege.<\/p>\n