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In the eve of the Celebration of the Flag
By: Evelyn Lahera Branches
Independent journalist
evelynramosl@yahoo.com
 SANTIAGO OF CUBA, 1 of January, 2010 - www.miamiprogressive.com) the Celebration of the Flag, that consists of raising the flag in the santiaguero City council, a tradition that patriotic Emilio Bacardi Moreau more ago initiated than 100 years. Nevertheless, by those rare contradictions of the destiny, for more than 50 years they have turned it into the objective and intention to greet the “triumph� of the Cuban Revolution.
Although the written and radial press has been in charge to emphasize the reached profits, the reality is another one. That reality that jumps at sight and that many prefer to ignore. In the eve of the Celebration of the Flag, by that typical curiosity of the human being, I went to the Park Turfs and I was placed right where today one is soothes of the Municipal Assembly of the Popular Power.
 As she already began to grow dark, a girl dressed uniform drew attention to that hour (something that is not rare) trying to ingratiate itself with a foreign tourist. To the distance she did not manage to determine the communication language, but by the gestures of the girl, she could deduce that conminaba to that she bought something to him to eat or to take. Soon I saw leave together by the park with unknown course.
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Awhile later I found the girl seated in one of the banks of the park, tasting its booty. I could not prevent the curiosity and I asked to him: Girl what you do here to these hours? And its answer more still hurt “my breast to me is working and there is nothing no to eat in my house�. And I insisted to him Why you are with the uniform, watches you have as it stained of fat? And it responded “because I do not have more in my house�.
 My anguish increased, when I saw arrive in its car, to Robert Alvarez Solano, president of the Municipal Assembly of the Popular Power, to that now they have given him to call the Mayor, who congratulated to some the santiagueros presents, but did not have eyes, to see Teresa (it said therefore me that the girl was called), to this girl, who in his innocence does not understand that in his east litany man says to work much for the well-being of all.
The waited for day arrived, the coming of a new year, with celebrations, besides the Park Turfs, in the intersections of Trail and Highway of the Nose, Martà and San Pedro, Ferreiro and other districts more, towards music and drinks, to mitigate the hunger, that also Teresa, augurs for the new year. |
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