Cuban driver denounces injustices: "What do we have to do in this country to be able to live"

HeCuban driver Yoel Ravelo Rodríguez He denounced from the social network Facebook the injustices that are too frequently committed in the country and questioned the things that the people have to do to be able to live with dignity, afterThey will take away his driving license.

Ravelo Rodríguez published a direct message from the user's profileLeyanis Torres in which he recounted his bitter experience with the Cuban police. He stated that the loss of his document corresponds to three 12-point fines, but that none of these penalties are for violations becauseHe has been driving as carefully as possible for 20 years.

He said that the threefines They were unjustified, arbitrary and excessive, since in none of the cases did they commit real violations. “I do not believe that this country is in a position to withdraw the license of people who only want to work and fight to be able to live, because we are going through a very difficult and very bad stage, having just emerged from thepandemic”, he assured.

The Cuban driver, owner of an American truck from 1957, pointed out that if they take away his license, he, who issmall farmer and who works for the Roberto Negrín cooperative, has no way to carry out his productions and fulfill his commitments.

“How I live and how I eat in this country,a country of so many difficulties, and where there are so many things lacking, without a driver's license to move around in this truck? But also, in which store is there a rubber that is within my reach, so that I, as a small farmer, can go there and buy it and put it on my truck?” Ravelo Rodríguez questioned.

He also said that the authorities are demanding a lot of technical status from private vehicles but that they do not guarantee the resources so that the owners of these cars can repair them and keep them in better conditions.

“I really can't find a solution to this anymore. When the topic of the pandemic,one of the first vans that was provided to carry medicines (...) it was this truck of mine, to take medicine to the province. I went to the province and at the checkpoint there in Las Tunas, they fined me 100 pesos (...) for two or three things that I was going to deliver there,” the Cuban driver said.

He stated that on the day they took away his license there were three Prevention agents, the so-called Red Berets, and three other police officers from two patrol cars, inside the air conditioning of the checkpoint. He criticized that they only came out to take his document and that they returned to the comfort of the office without wanting to do their job correctly.

He warned that because of people like theseThe country does not advance and the national economy sinks even further. “It seems to me that a checkpoint with two police officers has too many. The other four have to go to agriculture, because we are quite hungry in this country and we have quite a need. Not berepressing the people so much nor by crushing the people so much, taking away the license of a man who wants to work,” warned Ravelo Rodríguez.

He assured that they do not want to be seen as a mercenary, “look at me as a man who no longer gives any more, who has me suffocated. I have been working on this farm for 15 years (...) and what I want is respect.”

The Cuban's publicationIt has gone viral and has more than 28 thousand reactions. Nearly 5,400 people commented on the post and showed solidarity with the small farmer, victim of the abuses and injustices that are frequently committed in Cuba.

His reaction, marked by fatigue and desperation,reminiscent of that of the young Cuban mother Amelia Calzadilla who, a few weeks ago, criticized the island's government and held them directly responsible forthe deficiencies of the population.

“Don't the resources belong to the people? Isn't that what the socialist state enterprise says? How long are the people going to continue paying for your comforts? Have you read in the dictionary what the word “minister” means? It means a public official who serves others, not us, you,” Amelia questioned on social networks.