
{"id":199914,"date":"2019-06-03T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=199914"},"modified":"2019-06-03T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:04:12","slug":"special-periods-heraldry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/special-periods-heraldry\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Period\u2019s heraldry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The memories of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/economia\/periodo-especial-otra-vez-fotos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSpecial Period\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Cuba have been engraved in cast iron for those of us who lived it. More than 20 years have passed, at least since its crudest stage, and it is still hard to freely speak or laugh about all its shortages and vicissitudes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At some point in the dialogue, it does not matter whether at the beginning or at the end, the shadow of the trauma takes over, and what was a simple list of experiences \u2015many, logically, similar\u2015 becomes an act of exorcism. In a spiritual cleansing so that those dark times don\u2019t return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that the ghost of that period is again soaring over Cubans and that the long lines and other &#8220;symptoms&#8221; seem like an ominous prediction, many rescue the stories of that time to give themselves courage for what they suppose is coming and to teach the younger people \u2015who didn\u2019t live or don\u2019t remember the hardships suffered\u2015 about the crisis using the most acute list of words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba, certainly, is not the same as in the 1990s and whatever the times that will come \u2015if they\u2019re not already here\u2015 they wouldn\u2019t have to be the same. But in any case, in the absence of a crystal ball, what is known is at hand to, if not avoid, at least lessen the blow.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199918\" style=\"width: 962px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/419F8F3600000578-4647170-image-a-9_1498655840580.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199918\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/419F8F3600000578-4647170-image-a-9_1498655840580.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/419F8F3600000578-4647170-image-a-9_1498655840580.jpg 962w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/419F8F3600000578-4647170-image-a-9_1498655840580-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/419F8F3600000578-4647170-image-a-9_1498655840580-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/419F8F3600000578-4647170-image-a-9_1498655840580-750x500.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Tria Giovan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the things that gained value in those years, almost always because of the absence of others, I choose five that today still remind me of them. They are five symbols of precariousness, ingenuity and resistance, although there are many more that each reader can invoke according to their experience, which would give rise to a particular heraldry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are not the fleur-de-lis, nor the lion, nor the castle, nor other usual drawings of the Middle Ages, but with them the coats of arms of the Special Period could be designed. Those with which the Cubans went out to &#8220;defend&#8221; and &#8220;fight&#8221; day after day and which, hopefully, we won\u2019t have to emblazon again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The bike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Never before and never after have Cubans pedaled as much as in the 1990s. On old and resistant American bicycles, on other not so old but also resistant Soviet bicycles, and, above all, on the brand-new Chinese bicycles and the less glamorous Cuban bikes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bikes became \u2015never said better \u2015 battle horses, although they were called &#8220;goats,&#8221; in which people went to work, took their children to school, took a stroll with their couple and carried a sack of coal or a leg of pork that was bartered with some farmer for clothes, kilometers from home. And if by chance they had a flat tire or broke down, there was no other choice but to also carry them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were in such high demand, that their being given out at work and student centers &#8220;as an incentive&#8221; was the reason for many enmities. And, along with their growing and necessary use, a criminal mode that reached unsuspected summits also proliferated \u2015such as false parking spaces or the theft of bicycles on a bike\u2015 and that would have served for more than a remake about Vittorio De Sica\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ladri_di_biciclette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">classic film<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Bicycle Thieves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The mug of water and sugar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was the lifeline of millions at any time of the day: in the mornings, in the afternoons, with the meals and, even, at dawn, when the stomach started urgently groaning after a day of caloric deficit. Its invaluable service to the survival of Cubans could well deserve a medal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time sugar wasn\u2019t refined or clean, but that mattered little. It wasn\u2019t bought &#8220;through the ration book&#8221; or acquired on the thriving black market of those years that had it as one of its flagship products. All misgivings were erased when, mixed by hand with the water, it produced a viscous, turbid liquid, which relieved at once the hunger pains as if it were the divine ambrosia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the hardest moments, the &#8220;milord,&#8221; as the saving formula was popularly called, replaced the cold lemonade, the milkshake and even coffee that used to be served as a form of hospitality to visitors, for which the house glassed were set aside. But for the day-to-day, for the snack at work, the hospital or the schools in the countryside, there was the metal mug, that other never well-considered guerrilla piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199919\" style=\"width: 1700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agua-azucar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199919\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agua-azucar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1700\" height=\"1136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agua-azucar.jpg 1700w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agua-azucar-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agua-azucar-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agua-azucar-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agua-azucar-750x501.jpg 750w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/agua-azucar-1140x762.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1700px) 100vw, 1700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The heroic mug of water with sugar, many Cubans\u2019 lifesaver during the Special Period. Photo: OnCuba Archive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The kerosene lamp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the objects could have come alive in the Cuba of the 1990s, the kerosene lamps, lanterns and \u201cchismosas\u201d \u2015that Cuban variant made with glass jars and toothpaste tubes\u2015 would surely have gone on strike against labor exploitation. For them, there was hardly any vacation during those years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The absence of fuel and other energy sources \u2015a solar panel or a wind-driven generator was science fiction on the island\u2015 brought with it the annoying and endless &#8220;blackouts,&#8221; first unexpected and then planned, so that no one would say they weren\u2019t notified. The situation reached such extremes that night darkness became the norm, barely interrupted by &#8220;alumbrones&#8221; (lights on).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that time, to have a kerosene lamp was, at least, a consolation: the &#8220;bonfire&#8221; around which family members and neighbors gathered to spend hours, the guarantee that they could distinguish their features while they talked \u2015almost certainly about food\u2015 and wouldn\u2019t have to go to bed stumbling. Getting the kerosene to keep the flame burning was another matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The raft<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For many it was salvation, for many others a tragedy and even death. But in all cases, it was then \u2015and still is\u2015 synonymous with drama. Appealing to it meant risking everything, leaving everything behind: going to sea in search of a better life, uncertain beyond hope in the middle of the waves and the stalking of coast guards and sharks. Recklessness, an act of desperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There were all kinds of rafts: sophisticated and flimsy, made of wood and tractor tubes, with or without sail, made with car parts and with water tanks. There were also all kinds of rafters, from professionals to delinquents, from young to old. All, however, were twinned by the same goal: to leave Cuba no matter how and reach the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Cuban government wasn\u2019t able to control the drain, it opened the coasts, the exits became daily, massive. Some left in silence, without saying goodbye; others were bid farewell by their family and friends, between crying and praying to God. Not all the prayers were heard.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_199921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199921\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/balseros-2ab-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199921\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/balseros-2ab-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/balseros-2ab-1.jpg 755w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/balseros-2ab-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/balseros-2ab-1-750x487.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-199921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cuban rafters. Photo: Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>The dollar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overnight it went from being forbidden, badly seen as &#8220;the currency of the enemy&#8221; to being the lifeline for the battered Cuban economy of the time. Decree 140 of 1993 authorized its circulation on the island, decriminalized its possession and saved from going to prison all those who &#8220;traded&#8221; with it. Those who until then had been processed for that reason, however, did not have the same luck.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having dollars in the wallet became the aspiration of many, a feature of distinction. If until then Cubans were officially equal, &#8220;el fula,&#8221; as the dollar was popularly called, and its national surrogate \u2015&#8221;the chavito&#8221;\u2015 changed the landscape. With them you could eat and dress better, buy in the TRD \u2015currency-collecting stores\u2015 and many came to steal and prostitute themselves to get them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its moment of greatest glory, a dollar could be bought for up to 150 Cuban pesos. Then, little by little, the difference started decreasing. Finally, in 2004, the government took the dollar out of circulation \u2015although without penalizing it\u2015, imposed a 10% tax on it and completely replaced it with the convertible peso (CUC). Just in case people would become spoilt.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The memories of the \u201cSpecial Period\u201d in Cuba have been engraved in cast iron for those of us who lived it. More than 20 years have passed, at least since its crudest stage, and it is still hard to freely speak or laugh about all its shortages and vicissitudes. 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