The show must go on (part 4)
January 2014. Eight years have passed since my first visit in Cuba. Since 2008 when the “Pandora’s box” was opened things change rapidly. While in the streets Fidel is still a cult hero, it is Brother Raul who’s in charge to leading Cuba along a new socialist way. But in a country where state subsidizes almost all essentials, can Cuba afford the change?
The communist regime it’s a crossroads. While capitalism still remains a “dirty word”, signs of “spring” appear everywhere on the island. Far for been frozen in the past Cuba has to run even faster to keep passing with a changing world. To keep the economy afloat the island is opening up to the outside world fact that’s turning Cuba into a land of contradictions. While the Cubans still love the simple pleasures of life, economic reformers opening now a whole new world of dreams and aspirations. As they sample the test of freedom, as the influences of the outside world goes stronger, is a gap opening up; between the needs of one generation and the desires of another. It’s an ultimate challenge for the system under which every Cuban supposes to have the same opportunities and share the same dream. To step out they need destroy the balance between pursuing all they’ve been denied and risking all they have been changed. After decades they’ve been on a margins of the global community, Cubans may finally be preparing to take their place in the “mainstream”, allowing their isolation to wash away and celebrating all there fabulous island with the rest of the world.
The show must go on (part 4)
January 2014. Eight years have passed since my first visit in Cuba. Since 2008 when the “Pandora’s box” was opened things change rapidly. While in the streets Fidel is still a cult hero, it is Brother Raul who’s in charge to leading Cuba along a new socialist way. But in a country where state subsidizes almost all essentials, can Cuba afford the change?
The communist regime it’s a crossroads. While capitalism still remains a “dirty word”, signs of “spring” appear everywhere on the island. Far for been frozen in the past Cuba has to run even faster to keep passing with a changing world. To keep the economy afloat the island is opening up to the outside world fact that’s turning Cuba into a land of contradictions. While the Cubans still love the simple pleasures of life, economic reformers opening now a whole new world of dreams and aspirations. As they sample the test of freedom, as the influences of the outside world goes stronger, is a gap opening up; between the needs of one generation and the desires of another. It’s an ultimate challenge for the system under which every Cuban supposes to have the same opportunities and share the same dream. To step out they need destroy the balance between pursuing all they’ve been denied and risking all they have been changed. After decades they’ve been on a margins of the global community, Cubans may finally be preparing to take their place in the “mainstream”, allowing their isolation to wash away and celebrating all there fabulous island with the rest of the world.
