PUERTO PADRE, Cuba.- These have been “handsome” days. It is not strange. We have profusion of handsome men in Cuba every day. The Cuban, descendant of an African slave and a second-rate Spanish colonizer, in his centuries-old crosses genetically suffers a rare catharsis: he pretends to be brave by getting involved in the trivial, when in reality, being a genuine coward, he is afraid even of cocuyos. But the last truly transcendent joke has not been the tumultuous brawl at the Finca de los Monos, but rather a “presidential” bravado.
“Each municipality has to beautify its food and not think about what is going to go into the basket,” said the head of the Communist Party and designated ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel, trying to get his foot in the door for all of Cuba, during his most recent visit to Las Tunas. This is the last straw! And this one example is worth it. In Puerto Padre there is no sugar; We do not have sugar in the land of what was the largest producer of cane sugar in the world, the expropriated “Antonio Guiteras” mill, the former Delicias, founded in 1912, the same year in which it processed 2,372,318 arrobas of cane that yielded 182,486 bags. of 325 pounds of brown sugar, which they do not produce now, so this month, they have only sold two pounds per capita for the ration card.
And the sugar mill belongs to the State, the one that Díaz-Canel governs or misgoverns. So… How is the municipality going to produce sugar, with a sugar mill…?
Sugar for few
No, there is no sugar in Puerto Padre or in Cuba. Or yes, there is sugar, brown and refined, expensive, imported, inaccessible to the poor, women alone with their children, the helpless old people, retirees with miserable pensions, students without resources, military service recruits, the already scarce honest public employees and police officers… because, yes, with very rare exceptions, they are poor, very poor, without money to buy a few pounds of sugar, all the Cubans who do not receive remittances from abroad or do not steal, steal, embezzle or are usury merchants, bosses military, Communist Party or government employees.
And it is useful to ask: Where is the social justice for which the sugar workers themselves fought so hard and went on strike, those who today cannot buy a pound of sugar because it costs more than 200 pesos…?
No sugar or social justice
No. In Cuba there is no social justice or any other form of justice or equity because, although it may seem like a joke, as our elders said in reference to the support of our national economy, “without sugar there is no country.”
And, certainly, without an economy there is no possible nation, but a mere bunch of people, needy, or clinging to their jobs and perks who when they stop milking, flee to the United States, “forgotten” of the people and families they made suffer, because, and these examples published on this site are useful, one of those milkers of the country was secretary of the PCC in Puerto Padre; another, a major from State Security, precisely in charge of monitoring the workers and employees of the Antonio Guiteras sugar mill; another, prosecutor in Camagüey; and another, a court judge in Villa Clara.
And they are just examples of many others who one day spoke of “beauty” for Cuba, when in reality, and more by action than by omission, they are participants in the genocide perpetrated against the Cuban nation.
But let’s reiterate the question according to what Díaz-Canel said that, “each municipality has to beautify its food.” Then… if for Cubans sugar is a basic food: How is the Puerto Padre municipality or any other municipality in Cuba going to produce sugar? With a municipal mill…?
Sugar production?
At the end of 2023, the VIII Plenary Session of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) met in Las Tunas, where it was said that on December 20 and starting with the Antonio Guiteras plant, the 2023-2024 sugar harvest would begin. mill that, with a production plan of 39,387 tons, together with the 22,208 tons that the Majibacoa plant was to produce, would add up to 61,595 tons of sugar, which was the largest production plan of a province in the country for this harvest.
The “largest production in the country”
Five months after the PCC Plenary in Las Tunas announced that the province would produce 61,595 tons of sugar – the largest production in the country –, already entering the June rains official sources said that they had only managed to produce “25 percent of the planned sugar “, this is nothing more than 15,398 tons, leaving 46,196 tons no longer produced, which are those that do not reach the ration card, euphemistically called by Díaz-Canel “the basket.”
That “pretending” food according to Díaz-Canel and the PCC is a mere boast of 2024, there is no doubt; The words of Fidel Castro guaranteeing a harvest of 10 million tons of sugar in 1970 were like vain nonsense; or, as a one-armed challenger, it was Raúl Castro’s speech back in 2007, promoting a non-existent glass of milk.
Poor Cuba! So many handsome men in front of an old dictator. So many fists for themselves, Cubans against Cubans. And none for a handful for sugar. Excuse me. When I said sugar I meant country. I mean Cuba.
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2024-06-16 18:47:07
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