Ulises Toirac heats up the networks: Universities around the world are suing their counterpart in Marianao

With his usual ability to make people laugh, the popular Cuban comedianUlises Toirac fueled the controversy generated about the quality of life in Marianao, through an alleged lawsuit from world universities to its counterpart CUJAE in the Havana municipality.

“Oxford, MIT, Stanford and other important technological universities such as the University of Singapore and Imperial College London have filed an accusation with UNESCO against CUJAE for brain theft. “They think that because they are in Marianao they can do anything,” the artist joked this Tuesday on his Facebook profile.

The “José Antonio Echeverría” Technological University of Havana, known as CUJAE, is located in the municipality of Marianao, which these days has been a trend on social networks after thestatements on national TV of several inhabitants who presented an idyllic reality of the Havana municipality without blackouts, or problems with the supply of water or food, despite the general crisis that affects the Cuban population from one end of the archipelago to the other.

“Marianao is delicious. There is everything, food... There is water, there is current. There is everything"said one of those interviewed by the programFree access of the Havana Channel, which generateda wave of memes on social networks and label positioning#SOSMarianao with about 5 thousand tweets in the last hours.

Very soon futuristic images appeared attributed to Marianao as a world reference for progress, development and social well-being, in open mockery of the situation of extreme poverty and scarcity that is really experienced in its streets.

Following in the footsteps of other users' sarcasm, the comedian suggested that the most competent and prepared professionals in the world were, precisely, at the university located in the battered Havana municipality.

Hence its counterparts Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, the National University of Singapore and Imperial College London, felt the need to "accuse" the CUJAE. of Marianao before UNESCO, for “brain theft.”

In reality, the study centers that the Cuban comedian refers to as jealous of the "successes" of his Cuban counterpart are among the six best in the world, with the exception of the University of Singapore, which occupies 11th place, according to the most recentQS World University Rankings 2023.

In the same world ranking, the most prestigious house of higher education in Cuba, the University of Havana, was in position 467, while the CUJAE is in position 1201, one less than in 2021 when it fell 200 positions in a anus; no othercuban university appears evaluated.

The CUJAE has been in the news for the online confrontation groups that leave their classrooms to counteract complaints from civil society in Cuba, popularly known as “cyberclarias.” Its students have also denounced the terrible living and study conditions that are repeated in other universities in the country.