{"id":333111,"date":"2026-01-06T09:03:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=333111"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:03:55","slug":"a-bit-of-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/a-bit-of-certainty\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For my loved ones, for my compatriots, for my Cuba. For what lies ahead.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On the threshold of a new year, I\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0ask for too much: just a bit of certainty. Not as a slogan or a promise, but as a minimum condition for living a meaningful life.\u00a0Because if something has been\u00a0wearing\u00a0down over the years,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not only the economy or material expectations, but that intimate trust\u00a0\u2014\u00a0silent but decisive\u00a0\u2014\u00a0that the country and its people will be better off tomorrow than today.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-110624-2-1366x932.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"932\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Certainty is not a philosophical abstraction or a privilege. It is a concrete tool\u00a0of\u00a0daily life. It is the foundation from which one can plan, resist,\u00a0create\u00a0and even dissent. When that certainty crumbles, not only doubt\u00a0appears:\u00a0weariness,\u00a0disaffection\u00a0and the temptation to withdraw\u00a0emerge. Life begins to be lived in a transitory way, as if everything were provisional, as if nothing ever truly took root.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hence, the question becomes inevitable: how long has it been since\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0had a measure of certainty? How long has living in Cuba been more about managing uncertainty than building a future?\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0not about absolute guarantees or idyllic futures, but about something more elemental: the possibility of imagining tomorrow without the constant feeling of fragility. The lack of certainty is not only economic; it is also existential. It infiltrates family conversations, the decisions that are postponed, the\u00a0silences that linger. It is a form of subjective weariness that is rarely reflected in statistics.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-160925-4-1366x911.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\" width=\"1366\" height=\"911\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-120624-1366x889.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"889\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-160925-3-1366x823.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"823\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 15px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Exactly twenty years ago,\u00a0in the midst of\u00a0the readjustment after the Special Period crisis, Fernando Mart\u00ednez Heredia warned about this critical point. In his essay\u00a0\u201cNaci\u00f3n\u00a0y\u00a0sociedad\u00a0en\u00a0Cuba\u201d\u00a0(Nation and Society in Cuba), included in\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">En\u00a0el\u00a0horno\u00a0de\u00a0los\u00a090<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, he pointed out that it would be ineffective to confront the cultural war of contemporary capitalism solely from the convictions and experiences of a past of struggles, achievements and already formed identities. That world,\u00a0he argued,\u00a0contained\u00a0essential values\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u200b\u200b<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for facing the challenges of the present, but it also showed signs of exhaustion and moral weaknesses that made it vulnerable. The hegemonic culture was not advancing as a restoration of a defeated past, but as a promise of progress, as a necessary adaptation, as an inevitable future.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-130624-1366x910.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"910\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Toward the end of that text, Mart\u00ednez Heredia formulated an even more demanding warning: a stage of cultural struggle was\u00a0opening up\u00a0before Cubans in which resistance alone would not be enough. It would be necessary to be creative to move forward without losing the nation or the more just and\u00a0humane\u00a0way of life that had been achieved. And he added a central idea, almost forgotten today: the urgency of a renewal of the revolutionary project that would integrate the harshness of current realities with\u00a0objectives\u00a0more ambitious than those of 1959.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-180624-1366x979.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"979\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-190925-1366x869.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"869\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-180624-2-1366x981.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\" width=\"1366\" height=\"981\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1138px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-150624-1138x1366.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1138\" height=\"1366\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1078px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-110624-1078x1366.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1078\" height=\"1366\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Two decades later, when no one can deny the erosion of the myth, this reflection\u00a0retains\u00a0a disturbing relevance. Not only because the global context has become more aggressive, but because the absence of internal certainty weakens society\u2019s capacity to produce meaning, imagine\u00a0alternatives\u00a0and sustain connections. Without renewal, memory risks becoming\u00a0mere\u00a0ritual; without a horizon, identity tends toward withdrawal.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-170925-1366x915.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"915\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On the other hand, certainty is neither obedience nor blind faith. It is\u00a0coherence. It is the trust that is built when there is correspondence between discourse and lived experience. It is the point at which ideas cease to be abstract statements and become social practice. When this coherence breaks down, what is eroded is not only institutional credibility, but also people\u2019s emotional relationship with the common project.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">That is why certainty cannot be decreed or imposed. It does not arise from repeated slogans or self-sufficient narratives. It is built in concrete life: in sustained policies, in the real possibility of participating, of being heard, of not feeling treated as collateral damage. In sociocultural terms, it is built when the nation once again becomes a space of shared meaning and not merely a symbolic framework.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-170925-4-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-170925-5-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Talking about the\u00a0future, then,\u00a0requires more than promises. It demands political imagination, public\u00a0ethics\u00a0and a genuine willingness to review what has been inherited. No emancipatory project can be sustained indefinitely solely on the epic of its origins. When the revolution ceases to question itself, it also ceases to revolutionize.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Perhaps the\u00a0certainty that Professor Mart\u00ednez Heredia alluded to is nothing more than the possibility of rethinking the country from a place of creativity, not understood as a fragile slogan attached to the idea of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u200b\u200b<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">resistance, but as a conscious practice aimed at producing meaning,\u00a0horizon\u00a0and project. A creativity that does not renounce social justice or dignity, but that assumes, without paralyzing nostalgia, that every form of just life needs to be reviewed and renewed in order not to become exhausted.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-170925-2-1366x1049.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"1049\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For Cuba, today, certainty would be something both modest and profound: the feeling that staying is not a naive gesture, that imagining the future is not an empty exercise, that daily life does not unfold in the open air&#8230;and without light.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-170925-3-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1068px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-160925-1068x1366.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\" width=\"1068\" height=\"1366\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-150925-1366x951.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\" width=\"1366\" height=\"951\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-120624-3-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 1366px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/foto-Kaloian-120624-2-1366x909.jpg\" alt=\"Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.\u00a0\" width=\"1366\" height=\"909\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo:\u00a0Kaloian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the threshold of a new year, I don\u2019t ask for too much: just a bit of certainty. 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