The prime time news on Cuban television provides an account of the loss of values of Cuban civil society.

In it they highlight a complaint by a doctor who is bothered by the loud music at night recreation center near his house. The victim in this case, the doctor, complained for several days without getting any response.

Several people are victims of lack of education! Where do they put the churches and underground gay shows?

These two in recent years have expanded throughout the whole island. The activity with microphones or loud music or building a very musical church! They do not consider the place that is always surrounded by neighbors.

The Cuban Revolution with its more than 50 years of existence has brought many irreparable customs that in their promoters’ eyes are good.

What did the Revolution teach us?

In a bus today today, a person with a small child, be it a man or a woman, should be given a seat, but men and women both, many of them turn away to show they’re not looking, but sometimes you see someone chivalrous, but you don’t see it every day.

Formal presentations by the TV is a waste of time, the practice has always been the best way but since even that has fruit, a society destroyed by a revolution of equality where some work and others who work live. “This is what we will continue to develop.”

The Revolution taught us to organize a line of people has already failed, no one lines up to catch a bus (the word “last person” does not exist*).

Formal educational presentations on the TV are a waste of time, the practice has always been the best way but it no longer bears fruit, a society destroyed by a revolution of equality where some work and others live on their work. “This is what we will continue to develop.”

*Translator’s note: In Cuba, it’s customary for new people arriving at a line or a waiting room or area to ask “who is the last person?” and to organize themselves in that way, versus standing for long hours in line.

December 3 2012

November 4, 2012. The second round of voting was held, where both aspirants tied to become delegates from that constituency. Part of the population didn’t vote because they consider it an unnecessary activity.

The neighbors of the constituency gave a “no” in not participating to choose in a delegate. María González who is 46 years old, said, “why vote for someone who does not represent me at all,” saying also that the delegates simply solve their own housing problems and are the first to steal from the State.

Raquel Garcia, 50, comments that the street in the area is a disaster and the person in charge of this is the delegate. “We’ve had the same delegate for years and nothing is resolved,” says Garcia. “But if you go to his house he has everything. Where does all that come from?” she adds, indignant.

November 5 2012

Santiago de Cuba is characterized by being one of the provinces than most supports the Castro government. Its citizens, its major, are loyalists. The native city of the Castros has been destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

Was Sandy the principal cause of the destruction and the deaths? And what did the government do?

Normally, when a Hurricane comes no matter how small, the measures taken in Havana are always unlimited. Trees are felled to avoid accidents as happened in the east of the country, where because of falling trees several perished and the electricity was cut off leaving the population without power.

The living conditions of the very poor consists of nothing more than wattle and daub houses, and the best have a tile roof — a material susceptible to wind. Then, did Civil Defense do its work 100%?

Thus is was that Cuban citizens perished in their houses because they collapsed and because trees that weren’t cut down fell on them.

October 29 2012

The boat sent by Venezuela for the victims of Hurricane Sandy in the east of the country will not fulfill its objective. Most of the merchandise will be diverted to the hard currency stores to enrich the Cuban government.

It won’t be the first, or the last time that the government diverts some of the merchandise meant for the Cuban people sent by some foreign country. This is what some of the capital’s population say in the streets. “It’s nothing more than a benefit for the families of the military,” say the great majority.

We wait what will happen, but history has demonstrated that the products don’t get to the ordinary Cuban.

October 31 2012

More than half of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) of Havana did not celebrate their 52nd anniversary of September 27-28.  This celebration was marked at 90% only in the central and eastern zones of the country.

September 27 was celebrated in anticipation of the September 28 day of the 52nd anniversary of the CDR.  Since its inception this revolutionary Fidelist project only served to guard the government’s interests, not the Cuban people’s.

A square is made of four blocks, and each block has a CDR, so a square has four CDRs.

Currently four out of ten squares throw a party in anticipation of the 28th.  Therefore the others rest at home watching TV or performing some other activity.  Only 16 out of exactly 40 CDRs celebrate that day and 24 CDRs do not participate in said celebration. So 40% celebrate and 60% do not.  The chosen municipalities were Arroyo Naranjo, 10 de Octubre, Boyerso, La Lisa, Cerro and Plaza.

After the special period the disenchanted population little by little stopped celebrating this day until it went unnoticed.

September 28, state media communicated the 52nd anniversary of the CDR as a support of the revolution and made an example of an eastern region CDR where there was more citizen support of the government.

Fiftyfour-year-old Miguel Torres says that in his neighborhood (Santa Malea) there is no longer any mention of a party for the CDR, “The president does not go by the houses so that the neighbors might support with broth — a tradition at these parties.”

October 1 2012

The 21st century. A country called Cuba, where it citizens fight for a transparent democracy and for the freedoms that this encompasses. There are very few resources to achieve the power of the people in a country tossed into the abyss 53 years ago.

The Cuban counterrevolution, the opposition or the fighters for human rights in Cuba; whatever you want to call them, they have exhausted almost all their resources. The only one left is the most drastic option, the HUNGER STRIKE.

The opposition in Cuba has always tried to come to an agreement with the government, but it has always avoided any change and its governmental ideal.

Thus, the hunger strike has become a weapon against the Castro tyranny. Despite the fact that it is a weapon that destroys human being who undertakes it.

In reality the government has no interest in the deaths that could happen with this desperate measure. They are only focused on not losing their totalitarian power and avoiding democracy on the island. Space

But with a clear objective and a well defined goal, this weapon has become the Achilles tendon of the Castros.

October 8 2012

Cuba is preparing for the 2012 census between September 15 and 24. They are officially explaining the date to be collected, what the interviewee should say, without any guarantee of the validity and veracity of the document filled in.

Saturday, September 15, the census will begin, carried out mainly by high school students, who will each collect census data from 50 to 80 households, throughout the whole country.

Javier Lopez, 17, says that people see the census as a game because “I ask a citizen, ’do you have a computer?’ And she answers can’t you see it right in front of my eyes, but I have to put what you say, I don’t see this as having any use, I think I’m wasting my time!”

Lopez says he has canvassed 8 houses and hasn’t done more because people aren’t aware and aren’t home and other say they don’t have time right now and he goes back later no one is home.

Alberto Peña, 56, says they’d already been to his house and he was surprised that this census was being conducted by students and not social workers, and he asked the student if there was someone advising him and was told it was a university.

“I myself saw these young people without responsibility, apparently this 2012 census doesn’t have much validity, God knows if everything they put on the paper is what the citizen said, you can see that in 2 days these students go to 2 or 3 houses and they make up the rest.”

You have to wonder if, having done this, is this going to be valid for the government to have any idea of the cultural level of the population, the number of people living together in a house, the state of the house, etc.

September 17 2012