The designated president of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, once again caused outrage among Cubans, now for publishing a photograph that many considered “a mockery of the intelligence” of the population.
The leader has had multiple setbacks throughout his political career, always around denying the country’s bad situation, or recognizing it, blaming third parties or even the Cubans themselves.
But on this occasion, the president chose to pretend that he knows what work is, and posed for a photograph in which he appears holding a hoe, bent over as if he were really moving the earth in a corn field.
The photo also caused outrage because it was considered a mockery of real farmers, who work under practically inhumane conditions in order to harvest the little food there is on the Island.
And according to the description of Cubadebatethe official portal that published the photo, Díaz-Canel would have gotten up “at dawn,” as the workers who still support the country really do.
Díaz-Canel appears in the images wearing a shiny white T-shirt with blue and red headdresses, as well as a sun cap. The neatness of his appearance was something that did not go unnoticed.
“Circus for the photo, he doesn’t even go inside the corn so as not to get itchy. Look at the bag and clothes you clean, what makes you sick is disgust and shame. I am 80 years old and there has never been a worse government than this one in Cuba,” commented one user.
On the other hand, he highlights that the publication is aimed at “motivating” the population to work for free for the State, a strategy that the regime has been trying to consolidate for some time: that Cubans plant food and give it to the government without receiving any type of remuneration in return.
The initiative, laughable in any country, causes more indignation due to several factors, in principle, the little “free” time available to ordinary Cubans, who sometimes depend on two or more jobs to be able to support themselves with the minimum; On the other hand, the high cost of inputs to cultivate; and finally, the State’s monopoly on food, accusing anyone who preserves even food that they themselves have produced of “hoarding.”
“If the people depend on that man’s voluntary work, we will end up dying of hunger”; “He doesn’t even know how to hold the tool properly, ridiculous clown”; “As if he had worked a day in his life”; “Instead of those who do it being paid better,” users said on social media when the photo went viral.
The truth is that Cuba faces a food crisis that has increased in the last decade, with the government not allocating investment to the countryside, and monopolizing resources to dedicate them to foreign tourism.
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