A Paradise in Destruction

A Paradise in Destruction / Anddy Sierra Alvarez
Anddy Sierra Alvarez, Translator: Maria Montoto

What did the triumph of the Cuban revolution accomplish? A lot: it
changed what should not have been changed, destroyed all of the island's
prosperity. It focused on the benefits for the government and forgot the
people; it deceived, lied and used many followers, deluded at first by
promises of a false freedom and independence for Cuba.

What did they do? They made us dependent on the Socialist camp and
didn't care about the future in their eagerness to demonstrate that they
can come out ahead without help from its neighbor to the North; this
governmental pride oppresses us more each day.

What do they do? Nothing: to invent a blocade that always existed,
mocking this measure by having the help of the Soviet Union, and today
said embargo is brought out in order to explain and justify the scarcity
of all that was promised.

What have they demonstrated? The lack of preparation and the ambition
for power; that we are being led by incompetents or by people who love
regression.

The inexplicable! An island surrounded by ocean yet there is scarcity of
salt, there is scarcity of fish; 53 years of government and we have nothing.

The explicable! We are governed by an ambitious dictatorship of
destructive power, with ideological methods based on the hierarchy of
the Catholic Church, that force one to adhere to its beliefs or to be
punished by death or to be exiled forever. They are people who do not
know how to find equilibrium because they want to demonstrate their
absolute perfection — and that doesn't exist, not even nature is perfect!

Translated by: Maria Montoto

July 2 2012

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