A Repetitive Hack

A Repetitive Hack / Fernando Damaso
Posted on August 13, 2014

With regards to the Cuban hack living in Miami, I've decided not to
write any more, but it seems that drinks were passed around (in a letter
he declared his love for them) and in one of his last writings he
dismisses representative democracy.

He complains that in the United States you can't but a business wherever
you want, it has to be in a commercial area. That you are subject to
inspections, forced to follow regulations and ordinances. You have to
pay taxes. You can't paint your house whatever color you want or put up
fences without authorization. You have to have a permit for a rally or
protests, and journalists can only publish what newspaper owners approve.

The hack seems to want to practice anarchism in an organized society.
From his arrogance he asserts: Cubans don't understand anything about
this, they haven't the least idea about the implacable et cetera.

It seems that this gentleman, when he travels to Cuba to deal with his
work and have a little fun, hasn't realized that here, after some time
and overcoming the anarchy stage of years back, there are also all the
regulations he criticizes and much more, and they are enforced through
big fines, demolitions and even seizures without it being a democracy,
much less a representative one.

On the subject of protests and demonstrations it's more radical; they
are forbidden and, if you hold one, you will be severely reprimanded by
the authorities.

In the case of the press it's simple: all the media are state-owned and
the only articles approved by the authorities appear in them.

I think the hack knows this well, since he writes for one.

I don't know how much they pay him for his weekly diatribes on the same
topic: how bad it is living in Miami. Nor do I know if he is paid in
dollars or Cuban Convertible Pesos, but it would be nice if he would be
a little more serious, and stop thinking that we Cubans over here are
stupid enough to believe what he writes.

28 July 2014

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