“They leave musicians out of work but they follow bureaucrats,” laments Silvio Rodriguez

Silvio Rodríguez, one of the most international squires of the Revolution, has long since turned his blog Segona Cita into a place from which he provokes intense debates based on his critical comments against certain government decisions.

Aside from his regime defense, the troubadour has not hesitated to charge against the authorities on several specific occasions, such as the withdrawal of the press credential to Uruguayan journalist Fernando Ravsberg, the repression of the LGBTI march in 2019 in l ‘Havana or even the inclusion of Progress radio on a blacklist.

Since the beginning of the year, the newspaper on line of the musician boils intensely against the Ordinance Task, and moves economic debates in which his followers are not intimidated when it comes to denouncing the mistakes or negligence of the authorities. Rodríguez has already published three texts so far this year in which he criticizes the way in which decisions have been taken from the governing leadership and in which he advocates, very clearly, to give impetus to small private enterprise .

“Some in our ‘heights’ are very afraid that people will prosper, make money, become a force with their own opinions and endanger the established distribution of powers.”

“Some in our‘ heights ’are very afraid that people will prosper, make money, become a force with their own opinions and endanger the established power-sharing,” the musician himself bluntly asserts. “Most economists complain that, in parallel with the latest measures, SMEs should have been authorized and private sector areas strengthened (I have always said that they should be made complicit, I think with many it can be),” but the ‘let no one touch anything, I can only touch’ seem to repudiate this. ‘ Fear of losing control ‘, some say “.

It is so forceful in the middle of a string of more than 240 comments on the publish in which it reproduces an article of the writer and journalist Giordan Rodriguez Milanés, in the orbit of the bureaucracy until his exit of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), titled The unfinished drama of X and the Cuban state. In the text he talks about the helplessness of many artists who become self-employed from the order, which leaves them out of some rights that state workers have even if they have spent their lives paying the l ‘State to represent them.

Dozens of supporters of the troubadour have taken advantage of the message to protest to the point of outrage against government policies they consider wrong, starting with Silvio Rodríguez himself, who has no mania to say: “They leave musicians unemployed but all bureaucrats continue behind their bureaus “.

Although there are several people who slightly disagree or argue that there are countries where workers are worse, the author of the text intervenes to continue to express their views and replies that in Cuba the people were taught that the State and its leaders thought and decided for it while distributing subsidies, accustoming it to living without taking into account the costs of these gratuities.

The debate is also open to monopolies, with interventions stating that competition will improve the quality of supply. “The only way to improve the quality of bread is for people to buy another better bread for 1 peso. Not even thousands of sterile or corrupt audits or controls will make bakers in Cuba make you better bread for 30 consecutive days. “, provides a follower of the singer-songwriter.

Another notes: “In 2020 the state financed the inefficiency of the state enterprise. From 2021 the state decides not to do it anymore and make these resources directly available to the population through the increase But the state-owned company, with its almost monopolistic controls in most activities, has opted to look for a new way to finance its inefficiency (and beware! because inefficiency almost always masks corruption at different levels. ) through indiscriminate price increases “.

“What will I buy? (…) Where will I buy it? Considering that almost everything was closed, and what was open had nothing to sell. Will this be part of the Ordinance? Will it be conjunctural or permanent? ? “

“As long as the productive forces are not released through allowing the creation of small and medium-sized enterprises and prices are controlled themselves through competition, business inefficiency will not disappear, productivity will not increase, more wealth will not be generated,” add one more.

The high price or quality is not the only thing that is evident in the myriad comments from the blog of another time paladin of the regime. The absence of products has also entered the debate: “What will I buy? (…) Where will I buy it? This considering that almost everything was closed, and what was open had nothing to sell. Will this be part of the Ordinance? Will it be conjunctural or permanent? “

The author of the initial text is relentless in his views contrary to the authorities in the comments to his own article, in which he interacts to reply to those who timidly defend the way the Government has carried out the Ordinance task. After a long paragraph of outraged complaints, he ends his message with these words: “I better leave it here and not continue. That I am again without a balance on the Internet. Go ahead, distinguished colleagues: keep ending the country “.

After this message, Rodriguez rekindled the debate with a new one publish, Published on Sunday. In this case, the article is by sociologist Ricardo J. Machado and is titled Does ordering versus reality work? Here, the author apologizes for the mistakes made in the implementation of the process, for the difficulties involved, and urges the Government to listen very carefully to the demands of the population to rectify on the fly. But it does not put itself in profile when it comes to warning of the serious repercussions if the hand is not opened to small private individuals.

“We must tie our hands to the bureaucracy and not allow a parallel government to do its thing. At the 8th Congress, the CCP will have the floor. It could be the last.”

According to Machado, the government must implement a reform that gives impetus to SMEs, flexibility in cooperative management and “the long-awaited autonomy of state-owned enterprises that the bureaucracy will try to sabotage on hand.” And he continues: “Murillo states that the number of state-owned companies that could break is about 450. In my experience they would be double, almost reaching a thousand. The lack of managerial preparation and the mental drowsiness of many of our employers , as a result of almost 60 years of authoritarian vertical structure, is very difficult to overcome in the short term. “

In addition, the author makes a serious warning at the end of the text: “We must tie our hands to the bureaucracy and not allow a parallel government to do its thing. At the 8th Congress the CCP will have the floor. It could be the last. “

Rodriguez, less prolific in his comments to this one publish, Has taken advantage of the publication to convey the textual message of a retiree who cannot afford the cost of electricity and demands that the Government pay attention. In addition, he did not miss the opportunity to respond to the text discreetly but clearly: “I can not understand how this problem has not been resolved, based on the phrase repeated a thousand times of ‘think as a country’, which I I dare to elevate to another category ‘thinking as a nation or homeland’ ”.

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