Emigration

Emigration / Cuban Law Association, Noel Rodriguez Ávila
Posted on June 5, 2013

From an economic point of view Cubans have come to feel that they lack
a future, it has been more than five decades and they have seen no
fruits of their labors, which don't even meet their basic needs of
housing, food, clothing and a job with a decent wage.

The loss of motivation to study careers requiring a technical or
university education comes from there being no economic advantage, nor
even jobs to fill with these qualifications. The insecurity makes people
look to the future and old age with fear.

There is no hope of prosperity. Every discourse has a political focus,
with regards to the economy they only talk about working and being
productive, about control and demands, not of new factories or
investments or more employees. They talk about a primitive agriculture,
subsistence level. An educated people can't accept these miserable
proposals.

Religious freedom is tolerated, but the system doesn't like it. There is
a lack of freedom of expression.

Cuban people are taught to watch each other, there's a paranoia about
being heard and being informed on to the authorities.

The State's organizational structure is designed to convince us that all
is well, or to understand what is wrong by looking for external causes,
or in lower level management and not at the strategy of the higher ups
who re never wrong. This limits the possibility of changes, all this is
integrated into every Cuban citizen leading to a frustrated frustrated,
hopeless personality, faking it, with no exit, looking abroad for an
option, a hope.

The aspiration of every professional is to go on an international
mission to earn a little money, have a house, buy a car, and have some
comforts; when they can't achieve it they want to leave even more to get
away from their family, their country.

Emigration to the United States has also been an option, although risky,
sad and cruel, when people use any kind of floating artifact to get to
that country, to embrace a hope for prosperity and to help their family
who with anguished hope said the magic words, "arrive safely" and then,
gratefully, receive remittances that alleviate their economic stress.

In any event, the solution for Cubans is not outside, but within.

5 June 2013

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