Propaganda poster with image of Fidel Castro ends up in the trash in front of the Museum of the Revolution

A Cuban social media user shared a photograph taken in front of the Museum of the Revolution (former Presidential Palace of Cuba) in which a poster with the image ofFidel Castro thrown next to a garbage container.

The photo was taken by the content creator identified asLuis Luisovich Jañez inFacebook, and highlights the contrast between the place where the propaganda poster was located (the garbage) and the building of the Museum of the Revolution that Castro led.

“I passed by and the photo was there. Simple cell phone photo,” said the author of the photograph in the publication.

The image is added to other similar ones taken by citizens in Cuba, with paintings, photographs or books of the historical leaders of the so-called “revolution” thrown in the trash or piled up in the streets.

In February 2020, a painting withA photograph of the deceased dictator lying in a garbage container went viral in social networks. “Look at the beauty of the photo I just took on a Havana corner,” announced the user identified as @LanzadeCuba on Twitter.

The image, which received thousands of reactions, was labeled by some as a montage. However, the photograph served to bring to light the common opinion of many Cubans who did not see Castro as the pristine leader that the ruling party and the regime's propaganda had tried to establish for decades, but rather as an authoritarian person who rooted one of the dictatorships. longest and most controversial on the continent.

Four years later, the figure of the dictator is still present in the propaganda of the Cuban regime, as was evident in a video that was recently shownthe indoctrination that Cuban children receive in schools.

In the recording, made by the teacher of a fifth grade classroom, a teacher who was a member of the Communist Party was seen visiting the classroom to speak to the minors about the "honor" that it meant to be a militant, whose virtues she embodied in the figure of the deceased dictator.

"Maintain a correct line of life, honesty, selflessness, altruism,almost everything the Commander said"said the woman when asked by a child.

In August,the Fidel Castro Ruz Center offered "summer courses" for children, so that they could immerse themselves in the life of the deceased dictator.

At the local headquarters, in a luxurious mansion in El Vedado, the minors received workshops and activities related to Castro. Many parents, in a hot summer with few entertainment options and very high prices at amusement parks, decided to take their children.

In recent times there have been several cases of parents who refuse this ideologization to which Cuban students are exposed from the moment they enter the education system.

In September, the lawyerManuel Viera assured that his daughter will grow up free of indoctrination although his life depends on that.

"Today Brenda begins her story and I ask God that everything is different... and that if it does not change we will not have to become pioneers in this hell. My daughter will not learn doctrines and ideological concepts like her father. My daughter will grow up free of decide the direction he will take in his life here or in Antarctica... even if my life depends on it!" he stated.

In April 2022, a Cuban mother who identifies herself on Twitter asLily AR, exploded against the empty ideologies and political rituals that her son is taught at school.

"I have mixed feelings, disgust, shame, sadness. Today they put my son's headscarf on and he had to learn the typical communist shit, something like this: For the guidance of Martí, for the guidance of Fidel, for the socialist homeland, Moncadistas always ready. I fought against everything," he commented in a tweet.

"Why do I have to limit myself to explaining to my son that it bothers me that he says those things? He is small and I don't want politics or my way of thinking to be a burden on his little head. But then why doesn't 'school' is also limited? Why do I have to accept that my son is indoctrinated?" he questioned.

The Museum of the Revolution, housed in the old Presidential Palace built between 1913 and 1920, (originally decorated by Tiffany's of New York), is currently closed to the public for restoration works carried out by the Panamanian company.Dellarocca.

The amount of the Cuban regime's investment for this work, the execution deadlines, as well as other conditions in the public bidding document (in case it has been tendered through this mechanism) that was finally resolved in favor of said company are unknown. Panamanian.

At the end of September 2020, Janez denounced on Facebookhaving received a fine of 2,000 pesos in a park in Havana where they were trying to connect to the internet.