Selfishness and lack of humanity in difficult times are the words that define, without a doubt, certain people who, inside or outside Cuba, only concentrate on claiming light for themselves and attacking the national government and the Basic Electric Organization, while thousands of compatriots both in Guantánamo and in the western part of the country are still struggling with the anxiety, pain and darkness accentuated by hurricanes Oscar and Rafael, and by the recent occurrence of unusual seismic activities.
It is striking that most of those who are most dissatisfied with the current economic-financial, food and energy situation of Cuban society are those who contribute the least to the collective welfare: he included commentators who, with full working age and very broad backs, live without shooting a pea, riding in motorcycles and playing dominoes; or earn a good bill and succulent rations through invention, illegality, trafficking of goods or by exploiting the sweat and the pockets of others.
Those: those who only think of their own luck and money; doomsayers of defeat and disenchantment; incapable of putting themselves in the shoes of others; weak in mind and character, will hardly be willing to step forward to mobilize in recovery tasks far from home as do linemen and specialists of the Basic Electric Organization and many other volunteers and altruists from different sectors and regions who go to the areas and provinces affected by the most recent natural disasters to restore hope, the roof and the light lost by the force of the windstorm.
Fortunately for Cuba, the attitudes of solidarity and heroism continue to be alive in the majority of the people, in spite of the enormous psychological warfare and the programs of disinformation and reinforcement of consumerist and foreign values reinforced by the government of the United States and the enemies of the Revolution against those who resist standing on this rebellious island in the middle of the Caribbean.
Today, as it has always done, Cuba saves! and does the impossible so that no one is left helpless!
Only unity, commitment to life, brotherhood among compatriots and the certainty of victory can get us out of this new quagmire, as happened after the mercenary attack on Playa Giron, in the October Crisis, in the most serious outbreaks of dengue fever in the 80’s and before the threat of imminent war inspired by the administration of Ronald Reagan in that same period.
We will move forward, moreover, in the face of natural and enemy political excesses, with the same will, intelligence, sense of gratitude and resistance with which we did during the Special Period, or in the face of the lethal risk of COVID-19.
Martí said it yesterday, and it seems to refer to today’s egoists and egocentrics: “Men cannot be more perfect than the sun. The sun burns with the same light with which it heats. The sun has spots. The ungrateful speak only of the spots. The grateful speak of the light.
The selfish do not know of that light, nor do they recognize in others the fire that is lacking in them; they hate or mock the virtue of others, because it reveals them in their lukewarmness and shames them in their ridiculous and divisive comfort”. In the times that Cuba and its people are living right now, and to safeguard the future, there are only two key words: solidarity and heroism. Solidarity multiplies love and hope, while selfishness lifts peoples up, and plunges them forever into the abyss of human misery.
