Cuba has become a warehouse of wholesale misfortunes
It seems that outside of the Island there is a queue where all of the calamities wait their turn to come in and cause all kinds of setbacks.
And anyone who thinks otherwise can voluntarily report to the emergency room of a psychiatric hospital to find out what treatment they can receive. Given the continued power shortages, they cannot expect to receive even a mild electroshock to bring them back to their senses.
It seems that outside of the Island there is a queue where all sorts of calamities wait their turn to enter the country without a visa and cause the most unimaginable setbacks.
First, it was hurricane Oscar that sowed with misfortunes in the eastern province of Guantánamo. Later or almost simultaneously came the national collapse of the obsolete National Energy System, to open the doors to another hurricane named Rafael that attacked the western provinces of the country without pity.
In the middle of this comes the return of Donald Trump to the White House to continue trying to besiege Cuba, which has been his evident purpose.
When the country began a visible effort to recover with the little resources at hand and a trifling more in international aid, two earthquakes measuring over 6 on the Richter scale, shattered the nation’s second largest city, Santiago de Cuba, and the neighboring province of Granma.
Landslides, houses with roofs blown off, walls and floors ruined, plus utility poles and electric cables knocked down have been the first letter of presentation.
All of this with an economy in intensive care, with projections that few specialists are willing to express publicly and where feeding and healing have become a headache for the families and the government.
Meanwhile, The President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel, dressed in olive green military uniform because of his condition as maximum authority of the National Defense Council, continues to transmit confidence and security to a population almost in a state of depression:
-“We are standing up. We are fighting. And we are going to get over this”.
