![]() In a desperate act, the Communist Party is trying to drag with it in its fall and mud anyone who, out of indifference, opportunism or fear, wants to join it in its final blows. It wants hundreds or thousands of arms to appear in the action of pulling the rope that surrounds the neck of the Cuban people. Rather, this text seeks to involve the largest possible number of figures within the Island - in the blow and the threat – in a visible and categorical way. The document published this week, and to which new supporters are added every day, also distances itself from that other one, which circulated a few weeks after the Black Spring, in that it has no intention of convincing or changing the minds of foreign intellectuals who have spoken out against the repression unleashed on Jand the most recent in El Vedado in Havana. However, no threat, possible fall from grace, or loss of privileges can justify not having had the greatness of a “I do not sign” declared clearly and directly. Although there are also surprising presences, one can imagine the threads of pressure that some of those signatories must have suffered. Each renowned troubadour, plastic artist or writer whose signature is missing at the bottom of this new letter weighs much more than fifty official spokespeople, watchdogs of the word and ideologues of Castroism that abound so much among those who support it. The absences are also more noticeable and speak for themselves. If among those who signed phrases such as “Cuba has been forced to take energetic measures that it naturally did not want” true intellectual and artistic wonders stood out, the list of the current signatories seems more like the list of members of a Committee for the Defense of the Revolution or of a Rapid Response Brigade than of figures from the cultural parnassus of this nation. Is what is happening now is that a new “letter of ignominy,” which this time is on the side of the repression against popular protests, is causing such a different reaction here on the island? The first contrast lies in the signatories themselves. Before that shameful text, silence, complicity or indifference were the most widespread responses of those who lived on the Island. (EFE)ġ4ymedio, Yoani Sánchez, Havana, 8 October 2022 - Almost twenty years ago, Cuban society looked the other way when numerous heavyweights of the national culture signed a letter justifying the execution of three young people who hijacked a boat to reach the United States. The letter also supported the imprisonment of 75 dissidents in March 2003. A group from Cuba’s National Special Brigade of the Ministry of the Interior known as the ‘black berets’. ![]()
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