I had thought to analyze the difficult situation facing Ecuadorian democracy as a result of the chaos generated by the vigilantes of a false progress that only leads to the end of all citizen rights, when I learned about the sentences in Cuba of two young activists who only freely expressed your ideas.
This situation has many precedents, it has been repeated on the Island for more than six decades, but it is still a new anguish for the defenders of freedom in any corner of the world.
Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara and Maykel Castillo “Osorbo”, were sentenced to five and nine years in prison respectively, in a closed-door trial in which both were accused of acts that, in a less punitive society, would have gone unnoticed or simply sanctioned with fines.
The two condemned are artists. They belong to the San Isidro Movement, an artistic and cultural trend of a social and political nature that rejects totalitarianism, basically made up of young people who were born at least 30 years after the Castro brothers came to power and who have used art as a medium to express their opinions.
Groups such as those of San Isidro, as well as the protests of July 11 and significantly the song “Patria y Vida”, carried out by the youth, are a deep frustration for a regime that devised to forge the new generations as if they were automatons by service of a project contrary to the human condition, which is why the former Soviet Union failed and all similar projects were shipwrecked, not without causing serious damage to society and man.
The failure has been so resounding that the members of the San Isidro Movement and other popular expressions articulated or not, forged in a climate of repression, set in slogans of hatred and wall, have not mimicked the ruling party since they have been able to forge slogans such as the aforementioned “Homeland and Life” and “Culture and Freedom”.
The regime has its prisons full of free citizens who do not stop demanding their rights, including better living conditions, as evidenced by a complaint by Sister Nadezka Almeida, Superior of the Daughters of Charity in Cuba, when she wrote “Almost two weeks ago a person dear to many of us died and, in addition to the pain of loss, and her absence that will be greatly felt, especially for the people to whom she gave her being and doing, I was surprised, with pain, by the coffin that, although it is not the first that I see in horrible conditions, it is possibly the worst that I have seen in my entire life. It was something like a wooden pallet, where there is a small board yes and another no, lined with the fabric that we all know, without the cardboard on the bottom”.
The nun wonders “What is my pain? See how the fabric below came loose and hung as if nothing happened. I just looked and asked myself the question with which I begin this sharing: Do we deserve this?
The letter is even more terrifying due to the general picture it describes, but evidently these experiences and many others do not prevent the hate speech, destruction and chaos of the political operators of the Latin American extreme left from reaping great harvests because envy and resentment , evidently take precedence over reality.
A court in Havana found Otero Alcántara and Mikel Castillo guilty for giving their opinions and expressing themselves in accordance with their convictions without harming the rights of others, a prerogative that in most countries of this busy hemisphere is available to all citizens. , except Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
It is very gratifying to know that a significant number of young people throughout the hemisphere, in use of their citizen prerogatives, abandon the safety of their homes or classrooms, to demand greater social equity, however, it cannot be ignored that they run the risk to be wrong because it would not be the first time that a predator disguised as a lamb has been supported.
Let us bear in mind that many Cuban, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan parents who supported their respective saviors have their children in prison.
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