The Vertiginous Days of Anger

The Vertiginous Days of Anger / 14ymedio
Posted on July 21, 2015

14ymedio, Reinaldo Escobar, Havana, 20 July 2015 – Recently, many
calculations have been made about the time that has transpired since
Cuba and the United States broke diplomatic relations. The journalists'
texts have emulated each other in the search for an exact number of
years, weeks and days since 3 January 1961. However, so far none have
alluded to the 734 days that transpired before the two countries parted
ways.

Now that the emphasis is too frequently on how slow, complex and
difficult the normalization process between the two nations will be, one
has the right to wonder what would have happened if, between the first
day of January 1959 and the third day of 1961, the principals implicated
in this history had been animated by the same spirit that now measures
each step with serenity, without haste but without pause, and takes it
all gradually.

It is too difficult to resist the temptation to calculate at what speed
normalization could occur if, in the next 734 days, the initiatives on
one side or the other had the vertigo that existed then.

If harmony could be supplied with the same fuel on which the anger of
those days gorged, one might venture the date of 23 July 2017 (just when
the elections are being organized that will conclude with a new
government in 2018) to take stock of what has been advanced.

Timelines are boring, almost no one reads them fully. The one I've
suggested here includes some facts that more intensely marked the course
of events. Only official Cuban sources have been used, and are certainly
missing documents, speeches, declarations, and above all, actions, many
of them to be declassified.

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