the comedian Ulises Toirac lamented this Sunday the departure of his brother from Cuba Julius Toiracwith whom he had lived together for almost 60 years, and said that this departure is a wound that no one will ever heal.
In a Facebook post sensethe prestigious actor, who has become a sharp critic of the regime on social mediasaid goodbye to his brother and reflected on the causes that drive Cubans into exile.
“I have spent days ruminating in silence and licking my wound and although it has happened to me before, now it is with my brother and we have lived almost 60 years together … And now God knows … ”, he commented.
For Toirac, the trance he is going through is a collective drama, which does not make the pain he experiences any easier.
“There is nothing new on the horizon, but it hurts. Millions have passed that moment when our souls are torn and divided. Because of wanting, we would not want it… or not in this way in which there are no other remedies, “he said.
The humorist considered that, beyond the state propaganda that blames the US embargo for all the problems of society, what really pushes Cubans to leave their land “is the lack of prospects, of life.”
“Children are not pushed from a fair country to live as outcasts. And don’t tell me anymore that it’s the fault of the blockade, that yes, there is, and that those who are hit the hardest are those from below… Those who are hit to death…”, he affirmed.
“Uprooting is preferred over the eternal nonsense, the silly comment and clearly without feet on the ground. The lack of common sense, seeing that there is nowhere to walk, or worse, that each step puts our lives more in misery and lack of hope, that each step accentuates social disparity and makes people poorer. people, and more and more people,” he added.
Toirac reflected bitterly on the Cuban present, the deep collective frustration and discomfort at the government’s repression and mismanagement.
“What pushes is that it has no end and it seems like a mockery… What pushes is being certain that nothing can be done for your future or for that of the country, why not, because they don’t want to… nobody even lies about a luminous path… And they repeat to you over and over again that it is not being improvised, while the improvisations have been lopping off your limbs over and over again,” he said.
The humorist described the dark panorama in which the day to day of many of his compatriots has become.
“It has happened to millions. It has happened to me before. But this is my brother and he has had to go to hell, and it’s a wound that no one is going to heal. No one will ever cure us”, he concluded.
A few days ago, Toirac met his critics and stated that, although he is interested in what is happening in his country, going into politics is not his goal in life.
“I am neither ‘Patria o Muerte’ nor ‘Patria y Vida’, I am more ‘PatriaAmor’. Because I don’t bet sides. I bet on the best country regardless of the side. Slogans have always seemed like a joke in bad taste to manipulate my brain. Wherever they come from,” he maintained.
The current Cuban migration crisis is the largest in the country’s history, with alarming figures that exceed the Balseros and Mariel crises.
Only during the first 10 months of the current fiscal year 177,848 migrants from the Caribbean island They entered the United States through the border with Mexico.
In the face of an unprecedented crisis, Cuban government propaganda has tried to normalize a situation that has set off the alarms of the US authorities.
“The migratory flow could have continued to be normal if the United States had not implemented the blockade,” said José Ramón Cabañas, director of the Center for International Policy Research (CIPI) and former ambassador to Washington, in a new series broadcast by the official website Cubadebate.
The analyst tried to equate the migratory movements of Cubans before 1959 with the current ones, maintaining that they would be similar if the US embargo had not been implemented.