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A quoi ressemblez vous ?
El Sexto a dit qu’il ferait un graffiti sur ma valise ; une voisine m’a offert une amulette pour le voyage, et un de mes amis a noté sa pointure pour que je lui rapporte une paire de chaussures. Ils me disent au revoir même si je ne pars pas encore. Je ne dispose même pas de la date du vol.
El Sexto a dit qu’il ferait un graffiti sur ma valise ; une voisine m’a offert une amulette pour le voyage, et un de mes amis a noté sa pointure pour que je lui rapporte une paire de chaussures. Ils me disent au revoir même si je ne pars pas encore. Je ne dispose même pas de la date du vol. Mais quelque chose a changé pour moi depuis le 14 janvier dernier, jour où est entrée en vigueur la Réforme Migratoire annoncée en octobre dernier. Après avoir attendu pendant 24 heures autour du Département de l’Immigration Etrangère (DIE), j’ai su qu’on allait enfin m’envoyer un nouveau passeport. Après vingt « cartes blanches » refusées en moins de cinq ans, j’avoue que j’étais plus sceptique que confiante. Encore maintenant je croirai seulement que je l’ai obtenu quand je serai dans l’avion en train de décoller.
Nous arrivons au terme d’une longue bataille à laquelle beaucoup ont contribué. Un long parcours pour réclamer que l’entrée et la sortie de notre pays soient un droit inaliénable, et non une autorisation de faveur. Bien que les flexibilités apportées par le Décret-Loi N° 302 restent insuffisantes, elles n’auraient pas été obtenues si nous étions restés les bras croisés. Elles ne sont pas le fruit d’un geste magnanime mais le résultat des critiques systématiques portées contre l’absurde régime migratoire.
C’est pourquoi j’ai l’intention de continuer à « repousser les limites » de la réforme, de vérifier par moi-même jusqu’où va vraiment la volonté de changement. Pour franchir les frontières nationales je ne ferai aucune concession. Si la Yoani Sanchez que je suis ne peut pas voyager, je n’ai pas l’intention de me métamorphoser en une autre personne pour y arriver. Une fois à l’étranger je ne cacherai pas mon opinion pour qu’ils me laissent ressortir une autre fois ou pour plaire à certains, et je ne resterai pas non plus silencieuse sur les raisons pour lesquelles ils peuvent me refuser le retour. Je dirai ce que je pense de mon pays et de l’absence de liberté dont souffrent les cubains. Aucun passeport ne va fonctionner sur moi comme un bâillon, aucun voyage comme un leurre.
Ces détails étant précisés, je prépare le programme de mon séjour en dehors de Cuba. J’espère pouvoir participer à de nombreuses manifestations qui me fassent progresser professionnellement et civiquement, répondre aux questions, clarifier certaines campagnes de diffamation menées contre moi… en mon absence. Je rendrai visite dans ces lieux où l’on m’a parfois invitée, mais auxquels la volonté de quelques uns ne m’a pas permis d’aller; je naviguerai comme une obsédée sur internet et je reviendrai escalader certaines montagnes que je n’ai pas revues depuis presque dix ans. Mais ce qui m’excite le plus, c’est que je vais connaître beaucoup d’entre vous, mes lecteurs. Je ressens déjà les premiers symptômes de cette anxiété : l’estomac serré que provoque l’approche de l’inconnu et les réveils brutaux en plein nuit à se demander à quoi ressemblent vos visages, vos voix. Et moi ? Est-ce que je serai comme vous m’avez imaginée ?
Traduit par Jean-Claude Marouby
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L’organisation internationale contre la torture lance une “intervention d’urgence” pour José Daniel Ferrer
MIAMI, États-Unis.- L’Observatoire pour la protection des défenseurs des droits humains (OPDDH), a lancé ce vendredi une campagne d'”Interventions urgentes” en faveur du prisonnier politique et de conscience cubain José Daniel Ferrer García, leader de l’Union patriotique de Cuba (UNPACU), selon une note de Radio Televisión Martí.
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Who Is Filling Cuba’s University Classrooms?
New students at the University of Havana (14ymedio) Born during the Special Period, they have grown up trapped in the dual currency system, and when they get their degrees Raul Castro will no longer be in power. They are the more than 100,000 young people just starting college throughout the country. Their brief biographies include educational experiments, battles of ideas, and the emergence of new technologies They know more about X-Men than about Elpidio Valdés, and only remember Fidel Castro from old photos and archived documentaries. They are the Wi-Fi kids with their pirate networks, raised with the “packets” of copied shows and illegal satellite dishes
New students at the University of Havana (14ymedio)
Born during the Special Period, they have grown up trapped in the dual currency system, and when they get their degrees Raul Castro will no longer be in power. They are the more than 100,000 young people just starting college throughout the country. Their brief biographies include educational experiments, battles of ideas, and the emergence of new technologies They know more about X-Men than about Elpidio Valdés, and only remember Fidel Castro from old photos and archived documentaries.
They are the Wi-Fi kids with their pirate networks, raised with the “packets” of copied shows and illegal satellite dishes. Some nights they would connect through routers and play strategy video games that made them feel powerful and free. Whoever wants to know them should know that they’ve had “emerging teachers” since elementary school and were taught grammar, math and ideology via television screens. However, they ended up being the least ideological of the Cubans who today inhabit this Island, the most cosmopolitan and with the greatest vision of the future.
On arriving at junior high school they played at throwing around around the obligatory snack of bread while their parents furtively passed their lunches through the school gate. They have a special physical ability, an adaptation that has allowed them to survive the environment; they don’t hear what doesn’t interest them, they close their ears to the harangues of morning assemblies and politicians. They seem lazier than other generations and in reality they are, but in their case this apathy acts like an evolutionary advantage. They’re better than us and will live in a country that has nothing to do with what we were promised.
A few months ago, these same young people, starred in the best known case of school fraud uncovered publicly. Some of those hoping to earn a place in higher education bought the answers to an admissions test. They were used to paying for approval, because they had to turn to private tutors to teach them what they should have learned in the classroom. Many of those who recently enrolled in the university had private teachers starting in elementary school. They are the children of a new emerging class that has used its resources so that their children can reach a desk at the right hand — or the left — of the alma mater.
These young people dressed in uniforms in their earlier grades, but they struggled to differentiate themselves through the length of a shirt, a fringe of bleached hair, or through pants sagging below their hips. They are the children of those who barely had a change of underwear in the nineties, so their parents tried to make sure they didn’t “go through the same thing,” and turned to the black market for their clothes and shoes. They mock the false austerity and, not wanting to look like militants, they love bright shiny colors and name brand outfits.
Yesterday, with the start of the school year, they received a lecture about the attempts of “imperialism to undermine the revolution through its youth.” It was like a faint drizzle running over an impervious surface. The government is right to be worried; these young people who have entered the university will never become good soldiers or fanatics. The clay from which they are made cannot be molded.
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Who Is Filling Cuba’s University Classrooms?
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A Caricature of a Cuban Woman
Woman drinking (14ymedio) 14yMEDIO, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 22 August 2014 — A woman on national television said that her husband “helps” her with some household chores. To many, the phrase may sound like the highest aspiration of every woman. Another lady asserts that her husband behaves like a “Federated man,” an allusion to the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), which today is celebrating its 54th anniversary. As for me, on this side of the screen, I feel sorry for them in the face of such meekness
14yMEDIO, Yoani Sanchez, Havana, 22 August 2014 — A woman on national television said that her husband “helps” her with some household chores. To many, the phrase may sound like the highest aspiration of every woman. Another lady asserts that her husband behaves like a “Federated man,” an allusion to the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), which today is celebrating its 54th anniversary. As for me, on this side of the screen, I feel sorry for them in the face of such meekness. Instead of the urgent demands they should mention, all I hear is this appreciation directed to a power as manly as it is deaf.
It’s not about “helping” to wash a plate or watch the kids, nor tiny illusory gender quotas that hide so much discrimination like a slap. The problem is that economic and political power remains mainly in masculine hands. What percentage of car owners are women? How many acres of land are owned or leased by women. How many Cuban ambassadors on missions abroad wear skirts? Can anyone recite the number of men who request paternity leave to take care of their newborns? How many young men are stopped by the police each day to warn them they can’t walk with a tourist? Who mostly attends the parent meetings at the schools?
Please, don’t try to “put us to sleep” with figures in the style of, “65 percent of our cadres and 50 percent of our grassroots leaders are women.” The only thing this statistic means is that more responsibility falls on our shoulders, which means neither a high decision-making level nor greater rights. At least such a triumphalist phrase clarifies that there are “grassroots leaders,” because we know that decisions at the highest level are made by men who grew up under the precepts that we women are beautiful ornaments to have at hand… always and as long as we keep our mouths shut.
I feel sorry for the docile and timid feminist movement that exists in my country. Ashamed for those ladies with their ridiculous necklaces and abundant makeup who appear in the official media to tell us that “the Cuban woman has been the greatest ally of the Revolution.” Words spoken at the same moment when a company director is sexually harassing his secretary, when a beaten woman can’t get a restraining order against her abusive husband, when a policeman tells the victim of a sexual assault, “Well, with that skirt you’re wearing…” and the government recruits shock troops for an act of repudiation against the Ladies in White.
Women are the sector of the population that has the most reason to shout their displeasure. Because half a century after the founding of the caricature of an organization that is the Federation of Cuban Women, we are neither more free, nor more powerful, nor even more independent.
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