For this moment no bullets can be heard. However, in between these gaps of silence which invite you think about pacifism, your eyes will see bleeding wounds, suffering bodies and human souls perishing from mental anguish and physical punishments imposed by the adroit personalities of our insular bestiary.
The guns are resting, bright and shiny, on the belt of our leaders so that they can be used in case of any impending danger or simply to maintain natural fear and distress in the psyche of potential opponents.
Just come to any of the meetings which are called in order to hold debate on whatever social or political topic from a non-governmental point of view, and you might see that some of these discussions conclude with beating and shooting.
Parapolicemen carry no arms while at work. What their superiors want is efficiency, clean hand solutions and perhaps some discreet blows, should the repressive operation get somewhat complicated.
Systematic punching and kicking into the bodies of those whose had happened to be chosen for harassment at the very moment, leave wounds and injuries which, as time goes by, will slowly be forgotten.
It is a cycle which has been repeating continuously on the background of impunity where victims remain fatally helpless. This is how the story of a very peculiar genocide evolves. Cuba suffers from a strong and firm despotism the degree of which tends to go unnoticed, nevertheless, this tyranny writes a plenty of acts that all together make up one big nation-wide tragedy.
To be tortured physically or verbally for opinions or declarations that are in conflict with the rules imposed by the government Party, has become a probability which may materialize far too easily.
The high degree of political violence at all its diverse levels is associated with a system