The Cuban baritone Ulises Aquino Guerra published a sharp reflection this Wednesday on his Facebook profile, in which he delivered one of his strongest critiques of the Cuban regime and the current situation on the island.
In the text titled "The Stone Age," "The Bow and the Arrow," Aquino stated bluntly that thinking about the survival of Cuba under its current conditions "is not a utopia; it is a barbarity."
The artist directed a central part of his message to those who advocate waiting for a change from Washington without altering their own stance: "Acting in the way they propose while waiting for the United States to change its position on this is no longer a utopia; it is an aberration."
Aquino went further and pointed directly at the highest levels of power: "It would be very positive if the country's top leadership read a bit. They should prepare well to deeply analyze the consequences that the positions they currently defend will have for Cubans."
As a recommended reading, the cultural promoter also suggested the works of the Italo-Argentine philosopher José Ingenieros: The Mediocre Man and The Created Interests, and recalled that both titles "were banned for a long time in our country."
The publication constructs a series of paradoxes to illustrate the collapse: "Dictatorships cannot survive without dictators, nor can culture exist without cultured men. There can also be no creativity without creators, nor electricity without fuels."
Aquino also rejected the idea that time could play in favor of the statu quo: "To think that time is a variable in these circumstances is not just madness, it is a magnification of alienation."
Regarding the official argument that Cuba is being defended, the singer was unequivocal: "By forcefully imposing the defense of the irrational and indefensible, we will never regain Cuba. Because it is not Cuba that they are defending, nor is Cuba the main reason for their intolerance."
"Cuba no longer exists," he asserted. "There is a patch of land with that name that has been a victim of ignorance, bravado, and imposition. It has preferred to sink into its own destruction, into its ruin, rather than accept reality as it has been and as it is."
Aquino, founder of the community project Ópera de la Calle in 2006, concluded his publication with a phrase that encapsulates his feelings about the state of the country: "I feel great pride in what we were, much shame for what we are, and deep sadness for what awaits us."
This publication adds to a series of recent statements made by the baritone on social media.
Mid-month, he criticized the regime's economic policy in a text titled "You Cost a Lot," and a few days later he responded to Ernesto Che Guevara's daughter in defense of private workers.
Last month, he sent an open letter to the Minister of Energy and Mines, Vicente de la O Levy, questioning the spending on hotels compared to the collapse of the electrical system.
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