| 28/12/2020 – 19:08 (GMT-4)
The Cuban guitarist, composer and singer, Pedro Luis Ferrer, reflected on Facebook on the meaning of dissent in Cuba, where he comes from and how the authorities treat him.
Ferrer, who has held a position of protest against arbitrariness and abuses by the authorities on the island, referred to what a person goes through when confronted with designs of power, even if it violates basic human rights. He also questioned the ineffectiveness of traditional channels of citizen complaint and, with it, the legal helplessness in which a Cuban finds himself:
“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 per se. Not only does the repressive apparatus charge against this right, but the individual himself is limited to his exercise by a learning that every Cuban acquired, where dissent has been demonized, feared, condemned:
“Yes, because the act of protest is considered a service to the ‘enemy’ (revolutionaries must stoically hold on in silence.) And perhaps it is ‘friends’ who give reasons for protest? That’s how it works. the dissident factory, an unstoppable vicious circle. “
The author of The afternoon has become sad closed its publication with a joke on “mercenarismo to the service of the CIA” that the pro-government speech uses against the dissidents in Cuba and with tenths to which it called the Shout:
“The Crit
To Florinda the sting
They call it “condotiera”:
they say he charges at the border
opponent’s currency.
And his cry is Calante
with the fury of Sanzón.
People of your affiliation
has counted in Equixtán,
who shouts because they give it to him
with a trunk to the nipple.
-As I’m not going to shout
if you cause my grief?
To Juanito the Protestant
they call him a mercenary:
they say he gets paid
for his constant bullanga.
And the cry is abundant
as quid of the Erebos.
Nymphs and young men
have exhibited in Equixtán,
who shouts because they give it to him
with a hammer in the eggs.
-As I’m not going to shout
if you cause my grief?
Silence the bewilderment?
If I don’t shout, I’m dead “
Ferrer raised his voice last March to demand the release of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrested for alleged crimes. On that occasion, he expressed:
“If it were to condemn someone, I wouldn’t do it; but when it comes to the release of an artist, I’m not afraid to make a mistake and here I leave my rubric publicly.”
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