Will Cuban Culture Reclaim Its Place At the Heart of Our America?

Cuba and education

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“Without Sugar there is no country!”

Sugar, throughout it multiple facets, in its history and in its role for the development of the country’s economy, has contributed to make Cubans who they are.

It is present in its sensitivity, in its poetry, its fiction and its pictorial arts. It is even part of the language and the icon of one of its musical genius Celia Cruz’s Azucar!

Cuba’s social structures, commercial patterns and politics are in many senses, determined by the existence of sugar plantations.

Cuba is then a combination of colors

It may be attributable to one of their painters, like Rene Portocarrero, but it does not escape from a painful tone reflected in the face of Juan Francisco Manzano, a slave, hiding in a Cuba divided by race, beliefs, generations and pain.

We could use our imagination and travel to Varadero, Baracoa, Cienfuegos, Bayamo, El Morro, we could still feel the battles between la Brigada 2506 and the artillery from Granma at the Giron beach in April of 1961.

We could also become aware of the terror lived during the 1962 crisis, and feel the stress when the Soviets decided not to include Cuba in the peace negotiations.

Let’s consider their arguments: they were trying to avoid and emotional reaction (very Cuban), instead generating the lack of a necessary instrument to officiate long term peace, leaving everything to interpretation (also very Cuban).

Let’s better move outside this terror and embrace music!

We will dance and laugh with Celia Cruz, Willy Chirino and their vibrant Cuban expression (outside of Cuba). Let’s also smile and go back home with Ricky from I love Lucy, just don’t push his anger! (so Cuban), a popular representative of our Latin blood.

I will now take you to modern times

To meet a number of Cuban academics like Victor F. who writes emails offline to optimize connection time.

To admire my friend Hector a gifted photographer who is able to share only 2 photos a week from his computer.

To reflect on all feelings from Cubans in the diaspora and to also feel the impact of the embargo on the inhabitants of the island.

I have to also consider their rural educational model, their educational collaboration, their health policies and how they live sports as a universal right. Elements of which many Latin American countries would envy.

Next- We will always consider Cuba as a dish of “moros y cristianos” forever in contrast

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