| 30/01/2021 – 5:30 am (GMT-4)
The Cuban singer-songwriter, Pedro Luis Ferrer, publicly expressed its “deepest rejection” of use of force by MINCULT officials against Cubans who “just want to peacefully express their demands to the citizens” and considered that the palms serve to prevent what the Government does not want to dialogue.
“I’m Cuban, artist, musician, poet … and I can’t keep quiet about what’s happening on the island!”Ferrer clarified in a post on Facebook, in which he expressed his feeling of sadness and great concern for the “spiritual destiny” of the Cuban people.
The musician said that the palms serve “to avoid discussing what does not suit you; but, above all, to ignore the demand from those who do not have the power to impose it. Whoever, from a position of power, launches the outburst, convinced that he will be received by someone who professes the philosophy of non-violence, is a conscious computer “, he adds, and criticized the” arrogance “of the authorities and their use of force when they knew that they will have no “violent opponent.”
“Power omits the step of dialogue and moves on to the use of force. Well, dialogue means dialectic, change “, emphasizes the musician, who recalls that” whoever participates in a dialogue is willing to assimilate what he hears and to transform, to a certain extent, his reasoning and attitude “.
So, “Any policy of force avoids dialogue and is carried out by those who are absolutely convinced that they have the most absolute truth-absolute”He points out and accused the Cuban government of insisting on “ignoring the diversity of a nation.”
“We know that this type of person is not prone to dialogue with opponents who are NOT a danger to their physical integrity. That is why his sign is abuse “, he added about the images seen on January 27 in the vicinity of the Ministry of Culture, in El Vedado.
“I publicly express my deep rejection of any excessive and coercive action against all Cubans, workers and intellectuals who want to peacefully express their demands for citizens, which is an inalienable human right, universally agreed upon by all sovereign nations (including Cuba). and no state or government is authorized to ban it “, concluded the musician, who requests a fruitful dialogue.
At the end of December, Pedro Luis Ferrer, who always maintained a confrontational position in the face of arbitrariness and abuse committed by the island authorities, reflected on the meaning of dissent in Cuba, where it comes from and how the authorities treat it.
Ferrer referred to what a person goes through when confronted with power projects, even if they violate basic human rights, and then questioned the inefficiency of traditional citizen reporting channels and, at the same time, the legal impotence of Cubans. .
“From my own experience, I know that in Cuba there are people who are dedicated to making your life impossible. It’s like a sport. So when they shout and denounce (in a circumstance where national channels that receive complaints from citizens are ineffective), they pretend to use your denouncing cry to justify their abuse: – “Have you seen?” – They say satisfied-. “He is proven to be a dissident,” the artist said.
He added that protest is forbidden in Cuba, where not only does the repressive apparatus attack this right, but the individual himself limits himself to exercising it, learning that every Cuban has acquired it since childhood, where dissent is condemned.