Mayabeque, Cuba: Facebook is a meeting point for Cubans living in Miami who like to chatter about the current Cuban situation. Some do it because they are paid, others, with almost no foundations, attack any problem that exists in the archipelago. Criticisms against the country, its leaders and the Cubans who live here begin at the slightest situation.
Some, the most irrational, ask for more blockade, another invasion, they want to disappear from the map the land where they were born with their relatives inside, genocidal by nature. It is also true that within Cuba there are also citizens who follow these steps; from within they create problems without thinking about the efforts that are being made right now to control the Covid-19 pandemic.
The protests of July 11, the lack of medicines and oxygen, the increase in Covid-19 cases, the circulation of fake news and much more, has been indiscriminately exploited on social networks and by the media in Florida and other countries to form a media show that little by little crumbles before the actions of the Cuban government, the people and international solidarity.
We Cubans who live here know our problems; the President himself publicly accepted the need to reinforce social care and the most vulnerable communities. It is up to us to solve them.
Those who from Miami or other places tried to create chaos did not succeed. The Cubans who live there are divided into two camps: those who consider it appropriate to help and do so despite the obstacles imposed on them, and those who flood the networks to criticize, no matter how or when.
To those virtual “patriots” I recommend that they look around, there in the country they chose to live in and dedicate themselves to solving the problems that affect them today, it would be more logical and productive than continuing to look at the roosters on the barrier.
Read the following examples and you will see that you have many things to fix NOT related to Cuba.
The state of Florida and its cosmopolitan Miami, the truths that opulence hides:
- Studies predict that by 2022 unemployment in Florida will exceed one million people. (1,136.87).
- A short distance from luxury hotels and skyscrapers, the American city of Miami has another side of poverty and hunger, a report by the British chain BBC highlights today. That is the part of the city that you cannot see, that exists in the shadow of opulence, as is the case of Overtown and Liberty, some of the poorest neighborhoods in Florida City.
- According to Dr. Henderson, in Miami there are problems of urban and racial segregation that affect people’s nutrition.
- Liberty City has become a ghetto with high levels of crime, the neighborhood has maintained for decades the marks of racial segregation that impede the flow of capital into the area, there are no large supermarkets, nor stores that sell fruits and vegetables . (Taken from the BBC)
- 16 restaurants were closed due to unhealthy conditions (Miami Herald)
- Figures related to Covid-19 put Florida’s health system on edge. This August 20 in Miami-Dade County the number of cases was 584 thousand, of which 6 thousand 472 have died.
- Across Florida, the infected number 2 million 990,000 and deaths 41,937.
