Remware Editions2013-05-23T01:09:13ZRemCopyright 2013, RemSPHPBLOGFinnish press interested on what's next after FidelCDR secures governance in Cuba or something like that when you translate it from finnish. First I agree that the documentary shows facts on current cuban reality. What I consider is missing in this article is criticism and context awareness. As in any social system you can not model reality by isolating some phenomena from the context.
If you visit Varadero or any beach tourist resort you see none of this facts. If you go to mountains in Guantanamo or Santiago de Cuba you perceive a completely different reality. So the TV program is lacking the historical context where CDR was created, why is still existing and why is a popular surveillance system. The article asumes that the audience knows this issues already and you left it out on purpose (we can come back to this issue later). Let me briefly mentioned that main reason for creating that mass organization at the beginning of the revolution was to avoid the continuous sabotage against the Revolution. We are talking now about terrorism attacks: bombs in shopping centers, burning of public building, biological war (pig fever, dengue, corn and sugar cane fungus) introduced deliberately. Let's say time goes by and those reasons were controlled and relevance decreased. CDRs were then used again as mass movement to promote health care services and access to basic level (like is Neuvola here), it was used also to promote education, assistance to low income families, youth counselling, maternity follow up, elderly attention and others.
There are reasons and they are still valid: CDRs are maintained. They also provide social services and people do not want to get rid of them. There is surveillance as part of its functionality but since it is made by people each individual has the right to interpreted and act accordingly. Probably some people mixed the term surveillance with information provider, and always some persons complain about.
If you leave in Cuba for a while you will notice that majority do not care so much about that and government has other means. In my opinion stating the a Social System is assured, maintained by a mass organization like CDR more than naive is ignorance. The cuban system as any other system maintained by state control, the government is secured by Police forces, Internal affairs and Defense Ministry as you might know and not by mass organization.
There was in Helsinki a pretty example recently. Of course you need support from masses and that's why those states organizes some how kind of “democratic” elections. Give masses “circus and bread” was invented since Rome. It looks ridicule to mention that there is a lot of police forces in Havanna, with better salary than other sectors, without referring that in Cuba police corruption is not a disease. People continue to do their live normally and are no afraid of disparition...
Secondly the issues of “Llega y Pon”, giving a dramatic picture was well contrasted against that even there there is CDR. I have to congratulate you about that. That is cuban reality, full of contradictions. Nobody can explain, Is like “ruisleipä” here. It just belong to the culture, even though CDR is popular organization it is not compulsory to belong to them but you have access and rigth to use its services belonging or not.
Finally some words about freedom of speech, democracy and pluralism. It is interesting that you noticed some companies are lead by formerly army leaders. I guess for some reason it was not mentioned in the report that none of those companies are related to Army, weapon industry or war. They are there because they are good leaders I supposed, retreated from army career and having the opportunity to start a new one. At least they are not selling guns to conflictive zones as far as I know. In many countries good managers have hard expertise domain training, are trusted by other leaders, and are able to manage strategic sectors: tourism, food production, electronics, communications, heavy industry. You get the leader where you find the best combination of those three.
The opposition in cuba as you may noticed is quite reduced. It is against the government and the whole system. No state controlled system allows that except in Cuba. They want to change the system not only take power. It is little bit different opposition than the one in Finland. They are paranoic about persecution. There is no as such persecution, they are under surveillance... Many of them want to leave the country and no loyalty to their political ideas is found. They are playing a game where there is no benefit for anybody. Nonsocial behaviour, noise in public, scandals, nudity, drogs, vandalism, other similar activities penalized by law in many systems. Every citizen has to follow the rules, like or not. Luckily many believe in society and common order.
Anyway this is only my appreciation. I could agree as well that no human system is perfect. The more we know and understand the more we can make it better. There is always hope if we are willing together to build a better world
The old man said “ the system is rooted”, meaning that roots are very deep and are mean to stay. You cannot change a system by removing the good things it provides.
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