| 30/01/2021 – 5:30 am (GMT-4)
The Cuban singer-songwriter, Pedro Luis Ferrer, his most “profound rejection” of the publicly use of force by MINCULT officials against Cubans who only want to “peacefully voice their civilian demands”, and he believed the blows were to prevent the government from actually wanting to engage in a dialogue.
“I’m a Cuban, an artist, a musician, a poet … and I can’t shut up about what’s happening on the island!”Ferrer clarified in a post on Facebook, expressing his grief and deep concern about the “spiritual destiny” of the Cuban people.
The musician said the blows are “to keep you from discussing what doesn’t suit you; but above all to ignore the demand of those who do not have the power to impose it. Whoever, from a position of power, launches the eruption, convinced that it will be received by someone who professes the philosophy of nonviolence, is a conscious calculator, ” he adds, criticizing ‘the arrogance’ of the authorities and their use. of violence if they knew they would not have an “adversary in violence”.
“Force omits the step of dialogue and turns into the use of force. Well, dialogue means dialectic, change, “emphasizes the musician, recalling that” whoever participates in a dialogue is willing to assimilate what he hears, and to transform his reasoning and attitude to some extent “.
So, “Any policy of violence avoids dialogue and is carried out by those who are absolutely convinced that they have the most absolute truth – absolutely”He stressed and accused the Cuban government of “ignoring the diversity of a nation”.
“We know that these types of people are not prone to dialogue with opponents who are NOT a threat to their physical integrity. That is why the sign is abusive, ”he added of the images seen on January 27 near the Ministry of Culture in El Vedado.
“I publicly declare my deepest rejection of any outrageous and coercive action against all Cubans, workers and intellectuals, who wish to peacefully express their civilian demands, which is an inalienable human right, universally agreed upon by all sovereign nations (including Cuba), and no state or government should prohibit it, ”concludes the musician, calling for fruitful dialogue.
At the end of December, Pedro Luis Ferrer, who is always one confrontational attitude to arbitrariness and abuse committed by the authorities on the island, thought about the meaning of dissent in Cuba, where it comes from and how the authorities deal with it.
Ferrer referred to what a person goes through when faced with the designs of power, even if it violates basic human rights, and then questioned the ineffectiveness of traditional citizen reporting channels and with it the legal helplessness Cubans find themselves in.
“I know from my own experience that there are people in Cuba who are committed to making your life impossible. It’s like a sport. So when you yell and sue (in a situation where the national channels that receive complaints from citizens are ineffective), they pretend to use your charge to justify their mistreatment: – “Did you see it?” – They say satisfied-. ‘He has been proven to be a dissident,’ said the artist.
He added that protesting is prohibited in Cuba, where not only does the repressive apparatus violate this right, but the individual himself is limited to exercising it by learning that every Cuban has acquired himself since childhood, where dissent is condemned.