| 30/01/2021 – 5:30 am (GMT-4)
The Cuban singer-songwriter, Pedro Luis Ferrer, Publicly expressed his deepest “rejection” of the use of force by MINCULT officials against Cubans who only “want to peacefully express their citizen demands,” and has opined that the handcuffs serve to prevent what the government does not really want to dialogue.
“I’m Cuban, artist, musician, poet … and I can’t keep quiet about what’s happening on the island”, Ferrer clarified in a post on Facebook, in which he expressed his sadness and concern for the “spiritual destiny” of the Cuban people.
The musician opined that the handcuffs serve “not to have to discuss what does not suit you; but -especially- to ignore the demand from those who do not have the power to impose it. Who, from a position of power, throws the outburst, convinced that he will be received by someone who professes the philosophy of non-violence, is a conscious calculator, “he adds, and has criticized the authorities'” arrogance “and use of force when they knew he would have no to violence “.
“Power omits the passage of dialogue and passes to the use of force. So dialogue means dialectic, change,” emphasizes the musician, who recalls that “whoever participates in a dialogue is willing to assimilate what he hears. , and to transform, to some extent, their reasoning and attitude “.
So, “Every policy of force avoids dialogue, and is carried out by those who are absolutely convinced that they have the most absolute truth-absolute”, He stressed, and accused the Cuban government of insisting on “not knowing the diversity of a nation.”
“We know that this kind of person is not prone to dialogue with opponents who do NOT pose a danger to their physical integrity. That is why their sign is abuse,” he added about the images seen on January 27 in the vicinity. of the Ministry of Culture, in El Vedado.
“I publicly express my deepest rejection of any disproportionate and coercive action against all Cubans, workers and intellectuals, who want to peacefully express their citizen demands, which is an inalienable human right, universally agreed upon by all nations. sovereigns (including Cuba), and no state or government is allowed to ban them, “the music concluded, urging fruitful dialogue.
At the end of December, Pedro Luis Ferrer, who has always maintained one confrontational stance in the face of arbitrariness and abuses committed by the authorities on the island, he reflected on the sense of dissent in Cuba, Where it comes from and how the authorities treat it.
Ferrer referred to what a person goes through when confronted with designs of power, even if it violates basic human rights, and then questioned the ineffectiveness of traditional channels of citizen denunciation and, with it, the legal helplessness in which Cubans find themselves.
“From my own experience I know that in Cuba there are people who are dedicated to making your life impossible. It’s like a sport. Then, when you shout and denounce (in a circumstance where the national channels that receive the complaint are ineffective citizen), they intend to use your denouncing cry to justify their mistreatment: – ‘Did they see?’ – they say pleased-. ‘It is proven that he is a dissident’ “, the artist stated.
He added that the act of protest is forbidden in Cuba, where not only the repressive apparatus charges against this right, but the individual himself is limited to its exercise by a learning that every Cuban has acquired since childhood, where to dissent he is doomed.