It reminds me of a song by theslain Chilean singer Victor Jara entitled “The little houses of the elite neighborhood,” in which he denounced the class differences existing in the Chile in which he lived. It is true that there are inequalities in all countries, but they are more notable in the leftist dictatorshipsbecause they only recognize some rights that are convenientto the political model, those that the giant propagandaapparatuses accentuate and overestimate, and that support the idea that they are the example to follow.
From the time they came to power, the households of the powerful who fought in the Revolution were located in residential neighborhoods such as Miramar, Siboney, Vedado, Kohly, etc. For the people they built shabby buildings that have never solved the demand of the ever growing population. According to the order of class importance, they continue marking the differences on the housing map of the capital city, and it is no coincidence that the chosen neighborhoods and the real estate thatthey share were built before 1959.
With facts like this, they continually highlight that they have the resources and control; they ironically label as “citizens” those whosupport themin return for the violation of theirfundamental rights, of discrimination, of historic promises broken, and of the chimera of a reward that the State reserves fundamentally for people or groups who share its interests. What they used to euphemistically call “stimulus” are the perks of an enthroned dictatorial oligarchy that is more and more stratified and shows it more.
June 30 2012
