What’s the Play Called?
HAVANA TIMES – The orchestrated process of the Cuban elections has begun. The official list of candidates for deputies has already been written. The National Electoral Council arranged and placed its 470 actors in the arena. Everything is ready for the latest play to open and flow during this coming March.
Meanwhile, an escalation of violence spreads. The femicide of Leidy Bacallao, a 17-year-old teenager, in a police station in Camalote, Camagüey, once again points out the lack of protection for women in Cuba and the inaction and responsibility of the State in this regard. Cuban feminists call for a state of emergency to be declared due to gender violence in the country.
In the Guanajay prison, artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara had begun, on February 1, 2023, his fifth hunger strike since he was imprisoned. Eight days later he stopped for health reasons. The hunger strike has become the only action he can use as a protest against the arbitrariness of his case.
If there is no real choice, why vote at all?
I know the answer.
Not voting makes things “difficult”.