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“mosquitoes” which are the small projects ofthe enterprising persons and gives way tothe smelly “camel” of violence, corruptionand emerging mafia.The worst of the tragedy of the run awaycountry is that this escape has rooted in thenational conscience as the first alternative to“get rid of this”. If you only have a smallsetback, if you are just different, theproposals and the incitements are abundantand we hear: “don’t be a fool, get out of thiscountry”. Where is the Fatherland, that is, theland of our parents? We don’t speak aboutthe Nation which we know is dismemberedhere and there by the ones who want todivide us in order to stay in power. We speakabout Cuba, the geographic settlement thatbelongs to all of us, the ones here and theones there. Cuba does not belong only to thecommunists and revolutionaries. Is itnecessary to say it? Thus, everyone whoincites to the escape to leave Cuba andforget it is contributing to theimpoverishment of the Fatherland, to theextension of the agony, to the bleeding,imperceptible but lethal, of the sufferingIsland.It doesn’t mean that everyone who staysloves the Island. It doesn’t mean thateveryone who leaves doesn’t love the Island.It’s about the one who accepts in hisconscience that “leaving” is the onlyalternative for Cuba. After all, everybodycontinues being the Cuban nation, in theIsland and in the Diaspora. And what canimpoverish the Island can enrich thewandering nation. Limited nationalismmakes everything poor. Uprootment makeseverything poor.But the responsibility for the escape is notonly personal. The Cuban government notonly allows it, tolerates it and wishes it as asafety valve but presents it all the time as the“other” option of the ones who don’t want tosubmit themselves to the totalitarian controlof the soul and the body. How can weunderstand, if not, that a regime whichcontrols each step of the citizens cannotcontrol the borders? It cannot control thembecause every day, in any coastal corner inthe country the rapid launches are allowed toarrive in order to get persons out of the country.How can we understand that a government thatcan control the airspace by bringing down twoinoffensive light aircrafts or can sink a tug fullof women and children cannot stop the growing,efficient and permanent business of the persontraffic all over the country?How is it that the simple citizens can organizethemselves and manage to go into the sea onthose launches and the government, with allthe power and the military resources of thefrontier guard has not been able to stop them?They only detain for three days, like a sampling,some persons who “manage” to escape later,sooner that later. The opinion of everybody,inside and abroad, launchers and Cubans thatgo to the sea, is that the Cuban authorities arenot doing what they should do to watch ourborders and prevent this massive exodus of lowprofile and sonority. If it isn’t so then why is thepermeability of our coasts only one way:outward? Or else, this vulnerability is bothways? Isn’t there safety in our coasts? Or is itthat in view of the fact that they cannotorganize a massive exodus of high mediaprofile like Camarioca (1965), Mariel (1980) andthe boatmen crisis (1994), the new strategy issubstituting hundreds of thousand dailycapillary and silent bleedings for those bigarterial bleedings?Attention: The big bleedings are scandalouslyvisible and they are interrupted and closedimmediately in emergency. These capillary butchronic bleedings are much more dangerousfor the life of the national body and nobodycares about them. They are not seen asemergency or they don’t want to see them asemergency. Their solution is postponed ordisguised with compresses and placebos. Evenwith symptomatic medication. In the end whenthere is no cure for the social ethnic bleeding,we will lament why Cuba has impoverisheditself, why the pernicious anaemia, why it diedin or hands without complaint, without ahealing surgery, without an agreement in thefamily.So, it’s been already a long time since somevoices here and there and more and more areraising the alarm and wish that leaving thecountry should not be considered as theEdiciones ConvivenciaPinar del Río. 201246