Quote of the day
From a post in Spanish on the Mambí en Acción blog written by Francisco Sau Boix.
"Everyone is talking and asking Juanes to stand up for the liberty of Cubans. There is no greater travesty than to ask a stranger to intervene for a victim that does not struggle to be free, nor defend itself."*
*My translation.
Cuidao, Alberto, lest you be labeled ominous and laughable by the morally enriched nobility.
Me limpio el you know what with the morally enriched nobility.
Hahahaha. "The Internet Bidet Squad."
Que se echen aguita ellos mismos.
I predict Juanes won't do any such thing. This concert is all about him.
The Castros have a police state second to none except North Korea, a jail system in size and rigourousness that excedes anything known in the Western Hemisphere -ever-, and more per capita journalists in jail than any country in the world. Is that proof of a people that doesn't struggle?
I'm with you on this, Alberto. It is something extremely sad to witness; even when you want to bring them information, another point of view, debate, analysis, you name, young Cubans don't care.
They don't want to be helped. They don't care about the political prisoners and the few with enough pants to be a dissenting voice. They are carelessly eating up the falacy all those men and women are CIA and SINA paid thugs.
Sad but true, many of them only wants out remittances and our cell phones - jeez! I thought I was never gonna be able to say that straight foward.
On the other hand, that makes me think what else can we ask from a generation tought to be brainless, not to think, but to follow? A generation that has grown seeing the live on the other side of the Malecon like the ONLY way out.
It makes me think about us, on this side, that at some point in our lives - or in our parents's lives - also decided to jumped over the malecon and seek a better future. Are we supposed to ask them to do what we didn't?
I don't know, I am, honestly, constantly puzzled by this. And, on top of that, the only one benefiting from that duplicity is the very regimen we ran away from, and we want to see eliminated.
It's hard; and it is even harder when you see the hopelessness of every body, young and old, no matter what you try to do to help.It's like the regimen has stolen their soul...