Joturo, a town in civic revolt.
Victor and Sanchez,
Independent journalist
victorernestosanchez@ymail.com
 
SANTIAGO OF CUBA 31 of March, 2009 (www.miamiprogressive.com) the settlers of Joturo, a small rural town of the province of Santiago of Cuba take around two years in frank civic revolt, demanding the electrical service. The protest by the electrical lack on watch has brought about confrontations with the authorities, demolition of the clandestine lines and arrests of the main promoters of the demands.

This situation has demoralized the governmental political forces. The citizens do not accept positions in the pro-government organizations and three presidents of sadly you celebrate CDR (Committee of Defense of the Revolution) have resigned to its positions.

The governmental efforts to solve the situation have failed, the installation of a plant to provide electrical energy of 6 of afternoon to 10 at night, was insufficient in capacity and the generator was burned.

The population has internalized the justeza of its reclamation and the responsibility that the government in the absence of the electrical service has. Something little frequents in Cuba, that the population gets to take brings back to consciousness of the person in charge or culprit of its evils, and identifies the government it locates and it for his solution is a fact of tremendous political importance.

Nevertheless, to almost two years to be happening this, with a maintained citizen attitude, that cannot be catalogued like an isolated fact, the santiaguera political opposition has not known to catalyze this citizen energy and to second it in its civic reclamation.

In that occasion, I commented to him to one of the members of the Executive Meeting of the Cuban Party of Orthodox Renovation, the importance that it had to represent politically that popular manifestation and to demand next to them its right to the electrical service, but of little Serbian the suggestion.

If the opposition wants to have social base, must comprise of the social fight, its leaders to dream up like popular leaders. If the government solves the problem of the electrical service in Joturo to satisfy the demand, the way of the generalized demand is abre. It represses if it and it jails to his leaders, it turns into the defenders and natural leaders of the social causes.

Reason that more limits the political leaders and of the civil society to become jumbled in the social fight is intention to leave country, on the one hand, them confrontation restrains of can take that them to the jail and delays its projects of exit and on the other hand it lacks moral representation before the citizens, sees that them like a provoker to harness their political endorsement and to obtain the exit of the country, like his main objective.

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