A Cuban identified as Luis Orlando Bermudez posted a scathing critique on Facebook of the promises made by Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz, who days ago assured that by 2027, Cubans will be able to appreciate the results of the ongoing economic reforms.
The trigger was the recent statement made by Marrero, when he claimed to be "convinced" that next year will bring visible results from the package of 176 economic and social measures of the regime, while also acknowledging that the reforms have yet to translate into an improvement in the quality of life for the population.
Bermúdez anchored his response in the story of his own father, a man of nearly eighty years who devoted his entire life to the ideals of the Revolution, participated in wartime conflicts, and sacrificed personal projects in the belief of promises that never materialized.
"A my father, retired with 68 years of service, the 'great Revolution' offers him a pension of five dollars a month. A liter of gasoline costs three dollars; a dozen eggs costs five dollars and sixty cents," wrote the author, illustrating with concrete figures the gap between official rhetoric and everyday reality.
Bermúdez recalls that since the 1960s, the regime promised to surpass the United States in development. "The promises were postponed; sacrifice and resistance emerged as a way of life," he noted.
The author also pointed to the internal inequality of the system. "Gradually, the gap between the rich and the poor began to close, but the sad part is that the spaces were not filled with abundance, but with misery and precariousness: We should all be equal! But equally miserable!"
The new promises have also sparked skepticism among citizens. A Cuban publicly questioned: “How can we trust those who have brought us to this point?”.
The economist Elías Amor described the 176 measures as "a complete sham" that do not represent a real liberalization, but rather a reorganization of state control.
Bermúdez believes that there is an unmistakable pattern in the Cuban regime. The same logic that promised prosperity over six decades ago now shifts the results to the following year.
He believes in his delusion that it is possible to deceive and subjugate another generation of Cubans, and that they can hold onto power for another seventy years," he wrote. "The story is over: they must accept their defeat and return the country to democracy; return the country to its people so that it can be rebuilt from the rubble they have left in their wake."
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