“you should do it now United States of America and you don’t remember anyone?“, in one of the short and harsh hacks of Amed Rodríguez, a young Cuban nicknamed ‘Bee Memes’, on social networks, a mother reproaches her son’s friend. Even immigration is his mockery. But the numbers are not heartwarming. laughter. According to data from North American authorities, More than 250,000 inhabitants until November Cuba they went to the USA every possible way: via Central America, especially Nicaragua, Mexico and also, cross the sea. They risked their lives and in many cases paid exorbitant sums to the traders.
The year that ends will be the year 2000 in Cuban history. a unprecedented migration flow. 2% of men and women in the largest of the Antilles decided to leave the country for various reasons, including the economic crisis. power outages, general famines, and a lack of medicine. Repressive hardening and the absence of personal and collective horizons were other causes of migration. Those who left didn’t always achieve their goals: The United States Coast Guard caught 6,182 citizens who had supposedly jumped into the Gulf Stream.
The crisis that has sharpened since the beginning of the epidemic, the collapse of an economic program – baptized as “monetary realignment” – leading to higher inflation and social inequality, and the effects of Washington sanctions are not unrelated to the exponential bounce. in statistics. In 2020, about 14,000 Cubans illegally entered U.S. territory across the Mexican border. A year later there were 39,300 people. The 2022 event surpasses all benchmarks. About 125,000 Cubans left the port of Mariel in 1980. This figure has never been exceeded. One of the things that happened strong generational component: young people or people of working age and professionals. The games have their fair share of courage and desperation, as is the case with a group of people who manage to reach the United States on a raft powered by the engine of a Russian truck.
US officials landed in Havana weeks ago to coordinate the reopening of the consular service, which had been paralyzed by then-President Donald Trump since 2017. His successor, Democrat Joe Bidendid not significantly change policy towards the island.
The official website ‘Razones de Cuba’ describes the unprecedented situation as follows: white house harassment“On the one hand, if you suffocate an entire town, if you deprive them of access to basic resources for their normal livelihood in different ways, if you literally persecute, harass, blackmail those who are interested in helping us; but also as a result of the inefficiency and incompetence of the socialist political and social system. you launch a media campaign that exposes the disastrous results of the commercial, financial, diplomatic siege, capitalist countries, especially the USA, ‘heaven on earth’, then there is no doubt that for a few people, Migration is offered as the only solution to their problems.”
tragic facts
There were also tragic parts of the flow, such as the October 29 collision between a boat and a Cuban coast guard vessel aboard Bahía Honda, which killed seven people, including a girl. Exile sectors were discussed a massacre”. The Cuban Ministry of the Interior says that everything is “a human trafficking operation Organized from the United States.
The Cuban population has not only decreased systematically since 2017. According to the data of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this decrease is more than Japan (-0.24%), South Korea (-0.19%), Albania (-0.17%). %) or Russia (-0.41%) and only Taiwan (-0.85%). The National Statistics and Information Office (ONEI) provides other relevant information on the consequences of mass youth abandonment: aging of the living. According to ONEI itself, by 2035, those over 60 will make up 32.5% of the population, those under 15 15.2%, and Cubans between the ages of 15 and 59 only 52.3% of total residents.
frustration
Mauricio De Miranda Parrondo, columnist for the website ‘La Joven Cuba’, thought that the collapse of “really existing” socialism, which was called “possible prosperity” by President Miguel Díaz-Canel a few days ago, did not change the outlook. “preferred” Cuban leadership insisting on proven ineffective policies that deepen the structural deformation of our economy and consequent underdevelopmentOfficials “characterized by a political autism resistant to criticism” “undermine their credibility”.
Source: Informacion
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