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FROM
CUBA
The
sentence 2f3f4a
PINAR DEL RO, November (cubanet.sergipeconectado.com)
- You could be miserable for one day, maybe
two. What's unbearable is being miserable
every day.
Misery can be put up with, it's something
that concerns human kind. Perhaps this business
of misery that concerns us may seem rather
gloomy. But that's the way it is.
Antonio is a man condemned to put up with
misery every day. Yesterday I learned of
things I didn't know about Antonio and his
misery. He worked a few months ago as a
technician in a t enterprise of which
many now abound on the island. An Italian-Cuban
company, ETECSA, which belongs to the communications
field.
Antonio is a communications engineer, and
that was the company he ed, considering
his profession.
"It was going well for me," he
tells me. "I had my car and everything.
Now it's a different story."
One day they approached him to propose
that he become a member of the Communist
Party of Cuba. He succeeded in convincing
them why he didn't agree to the organization.
In these t enterprises the laws are
dictated by the Cuban side. The investors
only participate in a percentage of the
profits and they are responsible moreover
for the equipment.
Antonio continued telling me his story
and we came to the moment of his leaving
the company. "Telling these things
to trusted people relieves me somewhat,
my friend," he says to me.
They finally threw him out of the company
when they learned he sold some cold drinks
they give the technicians as a snack when
they travel to other parts of the island.
"When they give you something, that
belongs to you, doesn't it?"
That day Antonio didn't want the drinks
so he sold them to someone who did. An official
of the company became aware and gave notice
to the bosses. Antonio was called to the
manager's office and he already knew what
awaited him. He wasn't mistaken. They ignored
all of his good work through the years and
they expelled him from the company. "For
selling some cold drinks they've thrown
me out for good."
Antonio now works in his home as a private
shoemaker when he can, because at times
he doesn't have materials to work to sustain
his wife and children.
I'm convinced that Antonio's sentence comes
from the day when he wouldn't agree with
the communists in the company to the
party that dictates and rules on the island.
From that day on, he was already a man who
was condemned to die in his lifetime.
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