{"id":223398,"date":"2020-06-24T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=223398"},"modified":"2020-06-24T10:43:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T14:43:28","slug":"if-we-dont-know-each-other-we-dont-understand-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/nation-and-migration\/if-we-dont-know-each-other-we-dont-understand-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"If we don\u2019t know each other, we don\u2019t understand each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/contribute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Help us keep OnCuba alive here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cuba is, and always has been, its emigration. Cuba IS emigration. You can\u2019t speak of Cuba without <em>El Habanero<\/em> and the <em>Cartas a Elpidio<\/em> by F\u00e9lix Varela (1824-1826, 1835-1838), the <em>Poes\u00edas<\/em> by Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Heredia (1825), <em>La Verdad<\/em> by Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros (1848), <em>Ideas sobre la incorporaci\u00f3n de Cuba en los Estados-Unidos<\/em> by Jos\u00e9 Antonio Saco (1849), the flag of the lone star of Narciso L\u00f3pez and the Teurbe Tol\u00f3n (1849), <em>El Lute del Desterrado<\/em> by Pedro Santacilia (1858), the expedition of the <em>Perrit<\/em> to Antilla, with Francisco Javier Cisneros, Antonio Bachiller Gov\u00edn and Antonio Mora (1869), the New York Patriotic Board of Cubans (1870), the Key West San Carlos Club (1871), the <em>Poes\u00edas<\/em> by Juan Clemente Zenea (1872), <em>El Emigrado<\/em>, from New Orleans (1872), <em>La Rep\u00fablica de Cuba <\/em>by Antonio Zambrana (1873), the <em>Diccionario biogr\u00e1fico<\/em> by Francisco Calcagno (1878), <em>Francisco<\/em> by Anselmo Su\u00e1rez Romero (1880), <em>Cecilia Vald\u00e9s<\/em> by Cirilo Villaverde (1882), the first meeting between Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed, Antonio Maceo and M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez at the Hotel Griffou (1884), Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed\u2019s <em>La Edad de Oro,<\/em> <em>Versos sencillos<\/em> and <em>Patria<\/em> (1889, 1891, 1892), <em>Hatuey<\/em> by Francisco Sell\u00e9n (1891), Emilio Agramonte\u2019s arrangement of the National Anthem (1892), <em>Cuba<\/em>, from Tampa (1893), <em>Cuba contra Espa\u00f1a<\/em> by Enrique Jos\u00e9 Varona (1895), <em>Cuba y la furia espa\u00f1ola<\/em> by Manuel Sanguily (1895), and the Order for the Uprising of the War of Independence (1895). All of them, conceived in exile in the United States in the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>The following century saw compatriots arrive at the most remote places on the planet. More than a million Cubans (many more if their children are included) currently reside outside Cuba. Nor can Cuba be spoken of without them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"BYQcaerj19\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/nacion-y-emigracion\/una-mirada-cosmopolita-a-la-migracion-cubana\/\">Una mirada cosmopolita a la migraci\u00f3n cubana<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00abUna mirada cosmopolita a la migraci\u00f3n cubana\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/nacion-y-emigracion\/una-mirada-cosmopolita-a-la-migracion-cubana\/embed\/#?secret=8hb3esFhlZ#?secret=BYQcaerj19\" data-secret=\"BYQcaerj19\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this context, it is important that significant and profound efforts be made to improve the climate of relations between Cubans from multiple shores. With a view to a meeting about the Nation\/Emigration called by the authorities in Havana, <a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/nation-and-migration\/cuba-postpones-the-nation-and-emigration-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and postponed until further notice<\/a>, I have considered it appropriate to share some observations on a matter of such importance and urgency.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><em>Full effectiveness (as soon as possible) of article 36 of the 2019 Constitution<\/em>: \u201cThe acquisition of another citizenship does not imply the loss of Cuban citizenship. Cuban citizens, while they are in the national territory, are governed by this condition\u2026.\u201d If, for legal purposes, we Cubans residing abroad are Cuban citizens, it is imperative that, being within the national territory, we are not treated as second-class citizens, preventing us, for example, from traveling on an Astro bus or acquiring a telephone line, or trying to charge us in foreign currency at cultural shows. For this, it is essential that we receive an identity card upon entering Cuba and thus avoid embarrassing, stressful and discriminatory situations, but, above all, in violation of the Constitution. How to ask the population to respect the Law of Laws when the government itself does not?<\/li>\n<li><em>Lower the cost of documents and travel permits<\/em>. I am convinced that the more Cubans travel to the island, relations between families become more consolidated as well as the more effective aid\u2015including the so important emotional support\u2015we can bring to our relatives and friends in Cuba.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I also believe that the more Cubans who have never returned can come into direct contact with their compatriots and, especially, with Cuban art, the easier it will be to appreciate live and direct daily life in Cuba, as well as the wide range of quality cultural events offered on the island. This, without a doubt, will allow them not only to enjoy the island\u2019s talent, but also to better understand the complex reality of Cuba in 2020. If we don\u2019t know each other, we don\u2019t understand each other.<\/p>\n<p>For all this, I believe that the Cuban government should facilitate and encourage the return of those who so desire, and for this I propose that the high cost (in time and money) of passports and entry permits be reduced and that they not be denied to any Cuban. Let\u2019s not put additional obstacles in the way of what is already, for many who hesitate to travel, a difficult decision.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><em>Adaptation of customs tariffs to the current situation the country is experiencing<\/em>. With the understanding that the aid of residents abroad to their respective families on the island is for the benefit of everyone in the community, customs fees should be considerably reduced.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When emigres bring medicine, clothing, footwear, bedding, hygiene items, household appliances, tools and spare parts for vehicles for their insular family, they are not only contributing to the survival and well-being of a significant part of the population, rather, it creates the conditions so that the limited products distributed on the island reach the least favored. Those who already have aspirin, beans, shoes, sheets, detergent, light bulb, hammer, microwave and bicycle tires in their house simply wouldn\u2019t stand on <a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba\/sociedad-cuba\/tradiciones\/colas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the store\u2019s very long lines<\/a> (with the consequent loss of productivity in the economy). The few products available would reach the people who most need them. The current Cuban tariffs do not protect the local industry and its workers from excessive competition, but rather penalize the emigrant and the resident alike.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><em>Presence of emigration in the mass media<\/em>. A deliberate and concerted effort must be made to integrate emigration into feature articles in the mass media, in an objective and sustainable way. Thanks to the noble (and daring) work of many intellectuals on the island, the plastic, musical, and literary works of some of our compatriots outside Cuba have appeared sporadically in specialized magazines. But a significant part of the people (especially those residing outside of Havana) don\u2019t read these publications regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It should be evident to all that the Cuban talent of the diaspora has not been recognized frequently enough in the most popular press (<em>Bohemia<\/em>, <em>Granma<\/em> and <em>Juventud Rebelde<\/em>), nor on the radio (Radio Reloj, Radio Encyclopedia) or television.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <em>Bohemia<\/em>\u2019s \u201cNuestros autores\u201d section should open its space to regularly review writers who live abroad (who are also \u201cours,\u201d of course). A program such as Amaury P\u00e9rez\u2019s excellent \u201cCon dos que se quieran,\u201d should be created, where Cubans from abroad who return to Cuba are interviewed. Likewise, radio and television must broadcast the work of those who left, both the glories of the past (Celia Cruz, Fernando Albuerne, Olga Guillot, <a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cultura\/musica\/la-lupe-79-anos-despues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La Lupe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cultura\/musica\/60-anos-anos-con-meme-solis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meme Sol\u00eds<\/a>&#8230;.), and that of the youngest artists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Jt21bya549\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cultura\/musica\/celia-cruz-un-simbolo-universal-de-la-cultura-cubana\/\">Celia Cruz: Un s\u00edmbolo universal de la cultura cubana<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00abCelia Cruz: Un s\u00edmbolo universal de la cultura cubana\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cultura\/musica\/celia-cruz-un-simbolo-universal-de-la-cultura-cubana\/embed\/#?secret=GGqER99S7M#?secret=Jt21bya549\" data-secret=\"Jt21bya549\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Prensa Latina<\/em> has correspondents in the United States. That coverage within Cuba of an endless number of academic and cultural activities related to Cuba be expanded, sponsored by our compatriots in universities, museums and other organizations such as the Florida International University (Miami), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.miami.edu\/chc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cuban Heritage Collection<\/a>, of the University of Miami, the Cuban Cultural Center and the Bildner Center (both in New York), and other institutions in Mexico and Spain, just to name a few. A simple web search will reveal a vast universe of Cubanness outside the island. The Cubans who live in Cuba have an interest in knowing them and the Cubans who live abroad that they be known.<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who have left have been absent from the cultural spaces of the Homeland for too long. The Cuban government must redouble efforts to achieve the full integration of the cultural work of emigration into the Nation\u2019s heritage, as well as its widest dissemination within the Island, attending only to the aesthetic quality of this immense and varied production and banishing any other criterion, especially the political one. It is time for us to be approached to our people where, when there is quality, we are seen, read and listened to en masse.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, I also propose that the exchange and acquisition departments of the Cuba\u2019s libraries be strengthened. Simultaneously, I urge my compatriots who live abroad to donate their books and records to them, especially to those in their municipalities and provinces of origin. Perhaps the cultural counselors of the Cuban Embassies in the various countries where they have representations can channel this fruitful exchange.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><em>Emigration\u2019s membership in cultural organizations<\/em>. The Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and the National Union of Historians of Cuba (UNHIC) should expand their membership to systematically include Cubans living abroad, because we are \u201cfrom Cuba.\u201d Likewise, the Cuban Academies of Sciences, Language and History should welcome those of our emigrant compatriots who have sufficient merits (I mean the scientific curriculum, of course) to be elected.<\/li>\n<li><em>Emigration\u2019s participation in the national awards<\/em>. As outsiders we are as Cuban as insiders (not only legally, but also culturally and emotionally), we should be considered and proposed for the prestigious national awards that are awarded annually in Cuba in various disciplines. Follow the list of my first candidates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>History: Lisandro P\u00e9rez (Havana, 1949) and Alejandro de la Fuente (Havana, 1963).<\/li>\n<li>Literature: Delia Fiallo (Havana, 1924), Hilda Perera (Havana, 1926), Jos\u00e9 Kozer (Havana, 1940) and P\u00edo Serrano (San Luis, Oriente, 1941).<\/li>\n<li>Social Sciences and Humanities: Alejandro Portes (Havana, 1944) and Mauricio A. Font (Delicias Sugar mill town, Puerto Padre, 194-).<\/li>\n<li>Cultural Research: Roberto Gonz\u00e1lez Echevarr\u00eda (Sagua La Grande, 1943) and Gustavo P\u00e9rez Firmat (Havana, 1949).<\/li>\n<li>Music: Aurelio de la Vega Saavedra (Havana, 1925), Crist\u00f3bal D\u00edaz Ayala (Havana, 1930), Tania Le\u00f3n (Havana, 1943) and Paquito D\u2019Rivera (Havana, 1948).<\/li>\n<li>Economy: Carmelo Mesa Lago (Havana, 1934), Jorge Jes\u00fas Borjas (Havana, 1950) and Jorge P\u00e9rez L\u00f3pez (Santa Clara, 1947).<\/li>\n<li>Plastic Arts: Carmen Herrera (Havana, 1915), Julio Larraz (Havana, 1944) and Jos\u00e9 Bedia (Havana, 1959).<\/li>\n<li>Theater: Ana Margarita Mart\u00ednez Casado (Camag\u00fcey, 1930), Mat\u00edas Montes Huidobro (Sagua la Grande, 1931), Pedro Monge Rafuls (Villa Clara, 1943) and Luis Santeiro (Havana, 1947).<\/li>\n<li>Journalism: Gustavo Godoy (Havana, 1942) and Mirta Ojito (Havana, 1964).<\/li>\n<li>Dance: Rosario \u201cChar\u00edn\u201d Su\u00e1rez (Havana, 1953).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I urge those who attend the Conference to make similar proposals.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><em>Reflection on the United States\u2019 economic and political measures towards Cuba<\/em>. I don\u2019t want to end without calling on my diaspora compatriots to seriously reflect on the dire consequences that the restrictions imposed by the United States on Cuba have on ordinary Cubans. Tens of thousands of families, and especially those of self-employed people who work in the tourist sector throughout the island, have been seriously affected by travel limitations: fewer people use their services as guides, translators, teachers or drivers; the less they buy their records, works of art and crafts; they eat less in their <em>paladares<\/em>; fewer stay in their private homes. In addition, fuel shortages affect all people and all services, especially transportation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"nu5e1yMjll\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/opinion\/el-bloqueo-a-cuba-trump-y-la-falsificacion-de-la-verdad\/\">El bloqueo a Cuba, Trump y la falsificaci\u00f3n de la verdad<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00abEl bloqueo a Cuba, Trump y la falsificaci\u00f3n de la verdad\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/opinion\/el-bloqueo-a-cuba-trump-y-la-falsificacion-de-la-verdad\/embed\/#?secret=8so5AKw8lI#?secret=nu5e1yMjll\" data-secret=\"nu5e1yMjll\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why are these affected compatriots blamed for any reprehensible measure that the Cuban government may take towards the dissidents, or for the authorities in Havana supporting this or that regime? Are we going to blame all Saudis, Sudanese, Mauritanians and Egyptians for the way they treat their women and homosexuals there? Or all Hindus for the precarious situation of their Muslims? Or all Filipinos for the abuses committed in the \u201cwar on drugs\u201d? Or all the Turks for the outrages against the Kurds? Or all the Russians for the annexation of Crimea and support for Syria? (in 2017, Senator Marco Rubio called Vladimir Putin a \u201cwar criminal\u201d). Would any of us support the ban on traveling to Cairo, Riyadh, Delhi, Manila, Istanbul or Saint Petersburg?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/cuba-ee-uu\/expertos-de-la-onu-piden-a-eeuu-levantar-el-embargo-contra-cuba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The U.S. embargo against Cuba has been strongly condemned<\/a> not only by almost all of the democratic and capitalist nations of the world, but also, among others, by all Cuban Catholic bishops since 1969, the Conference of U.S. Catholic Bishops and the last three Popes, none of whom we can seriously label as communists, ignorant of the Cuban reality, or useful fools.<\/p>\n<p>Let us join our voices and votes to eliminate policies that not only add additional difficulties to the island\u2019s population\u2015and I mean our parents, brothers, children, relatives and friends, not strangers\u2015but also create a climate of growing generalized hostility towards the United States, not only by the government, but by an increasingly significant part of the population.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying at all that Cuba\u2019s problems have their origin and cause in the embargo, but I\u2019m saying that the measures of the northern neighbor considerably aggravate the hardships of those who cannot even \u201csolve\u201d their daily life on the island. A Citizen of both countries, as I am, I wish the greatest harmony between the two. Children of divorced parents know what I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Nor am I suggesting to anyone, of course, that they abandon the fight for Cuba to be a country where the established civil rights of true freedom of expression and of association are respected, or that we stop working for a more plural Nation and with greater political options, economic and educational, without harassment of the opposition and with an independent and flourishing civil society, as is the case of the vast majority of the countries of Our America and Europe. It is quite legitimate to aspire to all this. \u201cFreedom is the right that every man has to be honest and to think and speak without hypocrisy,\u201d Mart\u00ed told us. \u201cOur aspirations are broad, and all men fit in them, whatever their way of thinking and the judgment they make of things,\u201d Maceo told us. But very early in life I learned from my Jesuit teachers that the end does not justify the means.<\/p>\n<p>I know well that it\u2019s not easy to put aside the great pain the Revolution caused us, but in moments like the present, we must also think about the pain of those who live there. Hopefully we can make our\u2019s the prayer that Francis of Assisi left us several centuries ago:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLord, make me an instrument of your peace!<\/p>\n<p>That where there is hatred, I put love;<\/p>\n<p>where there is offense, I put forgiveness;<\/p>\n<p>where there is discord, I put union;<\/p>\n<p>where there is mistake, I put truth;<\/p>\n<p>where there is doubt, I put faith;<\/p>\n<p>where there is despair, I put hope;<\/p>\n<p>where there is darkness, I put light;<\/p>\n<p>where there is sadness, I put joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s look to the future<\/em>. Marti\u2019s dream of a Cuba \u201cwith all and for the good of all\u201d has always eluded us. Forgetting the teachings of the Apostle and the most elementary principles of brotherhood and solidarity, throughout our history we have discriminated against \u201cIndians,\u201d blacks, Chinese, farmers, women, the disabled, provincials, believers, gays, dissenting, dissidents, exiles&#8230;. Our generation now has a new opportunity to pay off this old debt to Mart\u00ed and to the Homeland. Let\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/contribute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Help us keep OnCuba alive here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Help us keep OnCuba alive here Cuba is, and always has been, its emigration. Cuba IS emigration. 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