Monday, February 13, 2012

First Season / Fernando Dámaso

First Season / Fernando Dámaso
Fernando Dámaso, Translator: Unstated

Flipping through various economic and social information, for the
Republican era in Cuba, in newspapers, magazines, yearbooks and other
documents of the time, I note, again, the actual development reached by
the country, and the prominent place it held in many important
indicators, a measure of the effectiveness of policies implemented by
the different governments. Not everything was resolved, of course, but
the path of solutions in process for fifty-six years, with undeniable
results, allowed confidence that what was still lacking was only a
matter of resources and time, because the forms and methods to achieve
it were more than proven by years of successful application. That was
the country that existed on 31 December 1958.

The new regime introduced from 1 January 1959, overturned the whole
economic, political and social structure, engaged in the execution of
willful experiments, with no serious scientific basis or citizen
control, which converted the normal evolutionary process of the
development of a nation into an artificial accelerated involution, with
increasingly absurd decisions and actions.

The result: a country in ruins. We can put forward thousands of reasons
and justifications to try to validate the hundreds of costly mistakes,
but the harsh reality of generations sacrificed, resources wasted,
destroyed wealth and talents lost, will not allow it. It has been over
fifty years of continued decline, promising an uncertain and
unattainable future, at the expense of the daily misery of the majority
of the population.

Now they try to attack the evil with pills, bandages and some ointment,
but it is an impossible mission: to bring about healing of the nation
surgical actions are essential sooner rather than later. Everything else
is the waste of time to save time.

The measures implemented, greatly limited and in drips and drabs, remain
far below the expectations of citizens. Many more and deeper measures
are needed in virtually all areas, and must be applied in the near term,
if we are to begin to undo many wrongs, although it will by no means
solve all the complex problems accumulated.

We can not ask for calm and wait for the Greek calends — that is a time
that never comes — until the many committees set up complete their work.

On the street people are saying we are now in the early chapters of the
first season of the guidelines — those created to "update" the model.
These opening chapters aroused some interest but with the passage of
time, they have been losing their following.

If the script of this drama is not improved, viewers will stop paying
attention, as has happened with other earlier serials. But all kidding
aside, this is not actually a soap opera, but something much more
momentous and important to the nation.

I hope the authorities are aware of this situation and act with
responsibility and restraint, but also with depth and speed. Despite all
the many signs to the contrary, this is what the average citizen really
expects, being so bored and tired of government inefficiency.

Photos: Rebeca

February 11 2012

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