
{"id":241796,"date":"2021-07-25T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=241796"},"modified":"2021-07-24T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T17:01:14","slug":"assuming-our-contradictions-saves-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/assuming-our-contradictions-saves-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Assuming our contradictions saves us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contradiction is inherent to the human condition. To life itself. For me there\u2019s nothing new in this, I just put into words a maxim with which we live and that, on many occasions, is more comfortable to avoid than to assume.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the contradiction \u2014 with a bad reputation for many \u2014 exposes, in the midst of what we call dialectics, dialogue and discussion to get to the truth. It is the zero kilometer to move ideas and develop them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba, Cubans, we are not a planet out of orbit. As in the rest of the world, contradiction is natural and daily for us. Any of the people who took to the streets and were part of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/protestas-11-de-julio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">protests<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that took place on July 11 in various parts of the island \u2014 where various demands from different social groups and ideological positions converged \u2014 live on the same block and could even share a roof with someone who, a week later, participated, spontaneously or not, in the acts of revolutionary reaffirmation called by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6foto-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"The interior of a home in Santiago de Cuba on December 3, 2016, the day the funeral procession with Fidel\u2019s ashes arrived in that city. Photo: Kaloian Santos\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior of a home in Santiago de Cuba on December 3, 2016, the day the funeral procession with Fidel\u2019s ashes arrived in that city. Photo: Kaloian Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s more, surely these people share the queue for chicken, the domino table in any corner, the sip of rum or the cup of mixed coffee in the morning. And, now in these times of medicine shortages, they even split the only aspirin they may have.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/3foto-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"Domino table in a Cuban neighborhood. Photo: Kaloian Santos\u00a0\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domino table in a Cuban neighborhood. Photo: Kaloian Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the hard times of the special period, in my neighborhood, when blackouts occurred and which were called by Cubans with popular wisdom <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">alumbrones<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (more time with power cuts than with electricity), I once heard a neighbor, in the middle of the darkness and suffocating heat of a summer night, remember of Fidel, and not precisely to cheer for him. Another day, the same energetic voice could be heard house to house haranguing to go out to adorn the block with chains made from clippings from the few remaining Soviet magazines and handwritten posters. It was September 28, the anniversary of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People of different faiths coexist on that same street, perhaps without realizing it because it was natural, at least from my childhood imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/4foto-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"May Day parade in the Plaza de La Revoluci\u00f3n in Havana. Photo: Kaloian Santos\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">May Day parade in the Plaza de La Revoluci\u00f3n in Havana. Photo: Kaloian Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s where my father Jes\u00fas Santos was born, who, as he had the name of the son of God and a reinforced surname for the liturgy, was an altar boy in his childhood and later became an atheist, a member of the Communist Party of Cuba and a Fidelista until the last of his days. And on that block, in front of what was our house, one day we scattered the ashes of my old man, as was his will.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 681px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2foto-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Painted on a street in Cuba. Photo: Kaloian Santos\" width=\"681\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painted on a street in Cuba. Photo: Kaloian Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A decade earlier, on that same piece of asphalt, my neighbor Mar\u00eda, who as a child went with her family to live in the United States, returned to the neighborhood where she was born to celebrate her fifteenth birthday with a party with her neighbors. By the way, a few hours after Maria was born, in a hospital named Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, my father was the first to give her flowers. When she first returned to Cuba, the first gift she brought from Miami was for my dad.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1foto-1024x638.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of a Cuban woman at a Havana bus stop: Che Guevara is tattooed on her shoulder. On her wrist is an Orula bracelet, for the orisha of divination, the supreme oracle and the great benefactor of humanity and her chief advisor. She is wearing a t-shirt with the flag of the United States. Photo: Kaloian Santos\" width=\"1024\" height=\"638\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of a Cuban woman at a Havana bus stop: Che Guevara is tattooed on her shoulder. On her wrist is an Orula bracelet, for the orisha of divination, the supreme oracle and the great benefactor of humanity and her chief advisor. She is wearing a t-shirt with the flag of the United States. Photo: Kaloian Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I grew up on that block, the son of a dialectical materialist, and I played ball and hide and seek with Joanqui and Andresito, Seventh-day Adventist Christians who also took me to go horseback riding at their grandparents\u2019 farm in the country; in that neighborhood I also watched movies, had lunch and freely visited the house of my other friends Renecito, H\u00e9ctor and the aforementioned Mar\u00eda, until they jumped to the other shore. In the middle of that street called Agramonte, we would play ball or listen to music of all kinds with the older kids, my brother Alex, Aquilinito, Liudmila, Gonzalito, Raulito, Eduardito, Margaritica, Evelyn, Ang\u00e9lica and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/5foto-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"A bust of Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed in the Buena Vista neighborhood of Havana. Photo: Kaloian Santos\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bust of Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed in the Buena Vista neighborhood of Havana. Photo: Kaloian Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, only a couple of those neighbors live in the neighborhood. Others sadly are gone. The rest, like me, are scattered around the world. Some live in the southern hemisphere and others in the north. Some today sing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patria y Vida<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Others, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Me dicen Cuba<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And there are those who dance to the rhythm of the two songs. Surely, if we were in Cuba, some of us would also have gone out on the streets on July 11 and others not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That block, the contradictions, diversities and the previous list of endearing names, is part of my homeland, my Cuba. That street is a little bit of each of us who inhabit it without distinction of thought or creed.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/7foto-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"A workers\u2019 dining room in Cienfuegos. Photo: Kaloian Santos\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A workers\u2019 dining room in Cienfuegos. Photo: Kaloian Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, trying to put any category above that of Cubans or trying to cover up that there are contradictions in Cuba, as well as minimizing or turning a deaf ear to the fact that on July 11, 2021 there was a social outbreak in the country, denotes never having dipped our feet in the mud of the reality of the island.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/9foto-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of the intersections of Cuba and Amargura streets, in Old Havana. Photo: Kaloian Santos\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail of the intersections of Cuba and Amargura streets, in Old Havana. Photo: Kaloian Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the same way we also get immersed in and invent contradictions that, sometimes, are not or should not be. It is not contradictory, for example, to reject the U.S. blockade and, with the same revolutionary effervescence, discuss Cuba and its government. Both demands are urgent.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/8foto-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"A store in Holgu\u00edn. Photo: Kaloian Santos\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A store in Holgu\u00edn. Photo: Kaloian Santos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assuming the contradictions, questioning even what is established and understanding that every political and social process is not flawless or infallible, makes us better. \u201cThe Cuban Revolution demands countless revolutions. And every revolution is a victory against the limits of what is possible,\u201d Cuban philosopher Fernando Mart\u00ednez Heredia once told me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Somehow, then, let us celebrate in this time of so much pettiness and pandemic, of so many extremisms that our contradictions are latent there. 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