¿Por qué hay tanta violencia en Guantánamo?
Ciudadanos de la provincia Guantánamo, ubicada al oriente de Cuba, opinaron acerca de la violencia existente en la provincia y en el país.
Ciudadanos de la provincia Guantánamo, ubicada al oriente de Cuba, opinaron acerca de la violencia existente en la provincia y en el país.
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00:00 The problems, the violence that is being generated in Guantanamo
00:04 more frequently is due to the need that the country has.
00:09 I can tell you something about that.
00:12 The problems as such, hijacking, robbery with violence,
00:17 robbery in a house, in a house inhabited or uninhabited,
00:21 that order of things is the product of the same need.
00:26 Because people, when they feel pressured not to have much to give,
00:31 what food to give their children, that generates violence.
00:35 And that is what is bringing with it all this problem that we are facing now.
00:41 Among them, youth is not able to organize themselves.
00:44 Why don't they organize themselves?
00:46 Because they don't have to support themselves as such.
00:50 And they support themselves in the same violence.
00:53 They start drinking alcohol, they start taking drugs,
00:58 and that is what forces them to say the word "violence".
01:03 But in our genre, it's "cutting oneself".
01:05 The Guantanamo violence exists for many reasons.
01:08 One, because of the same economic crisis that exists,
01:12 youth feels forced to do different atrocities
01:18 to be able to buy a pair of shoes,
01:22 or to be able to buy some food.
01:24 Because there is not so much clothing, but food.
01:26 Food is the most expensive thing in life.
01:29 And so, youth is forced to go to any activity.
01:36 They understand that going to a Saturday or Sunday,
01:40 to any club, or whatever, is not allowed.
01:43 And that invades the audience.
01:45 The violence here in Guantanamo is terrible.
01:47 Here you can't go out, people are robbed all the time,
01:50 institutions are robbed.
01:51 And the government doesn't do anything about it,
01:53 because they don't take action.
01:54 It's the same thing, and the violence is increasing.
01:56 The people feel oppressed by all the violence.
02:00 Look, they took away a 14-year-old boy's life.
02:03 And who answers to that?
02:05 They killed him with an 8-punch.
02:07 And no one has answered to that.
02:10 There are stabs, there are machetes.
02:12 They are robbing motorists, they are stealing in wineries.
02:15 I'm one of those people.
02:18 You can't believe it, because the institutions in the country
02:21 are not taking the measures they should.
02:23 They don't look at who is stealing, they don't care about that.
02:26 They are taking the wrongdoing.
02:28 - What do they do?
02:29 - They don't do anything, the police don't do anything to avoid that.
02:31 Wherever you see them, you see them sitting, looking up at the sky.
02:34 The police don't do their job here.
02:36 They are doing it wrong.
02:37 They are not working against the crime.
02:39 You call them and wait for the problem to pass,
02:41 to go and say, "After everything is over,
02:43 after they have killed, after they have robbed."
02:45 The police don't do anything here.
02:47 - Yes, it's true.
02:48 Every day, there is a murder.
02:50 This morning, they killed a machete, a musician,
02:53 and no one knows who it was.
02:55 The police didn't do anything.
02:57 There is too much crime here.
02:59 There are many murders, many robberies,
03:01 and I'm one of those people.
03:03 - The youth is looking for ways to survive
03:06 in this moment that is happening in this country.
03:10 And, among other things,
03:13 the youth feel like they have nothing.
03:16 When they feel like they have nothing,
03:18 they go to the fastest and easiest way,
03:21 to attack people who have money or a better standard of living,
03:25 and to rob them.
03:28 And almost all the youth of Cuba is in prison for that.
03:32 Do you understand?
03:34 There are several and thousands.
03:36 We can't say now, there are moments,
03:38 but there are daily.
03:40 What you can't comment on,
03:42 but we know, all the same people from Guantanamo.
03:44 We know that there are thousands of daily events.
03:48 The same government is hiding it.
03:51 We know that one of them attacked,
03:54 the other one did it, and the other one is in prison.
03:57 And in the squares, and all the activities.
04:00 And all the activities that the government does
04:03 are activities to seek violence.
04:05 They are activities of the crowd,
04:07 they are activities of drinking beer, of drinking rum,
04:10 and they don't take anything else, because they don't take anything to eat.
04:13 They are the "misfrimes" that are working on this.
04:16 And the youth go there to drink alcohol.
04:18 And what is the cheapest alcohol?
04:20 The government puts the rum,
04:22 the rum that costs 500, 100 pesos,
04:24 and they are looking for the same young man,
04:26 the little money that the father can give him,
04:29 which is the rum that costs 125, 150 pesos.
04:32 And it's a cheap rum.
04:34 They make the same people a criollo rum,
04:36 which makes them drunk.
04:38 It's like a drug.
04:40 It's not the real rum that the government has.
04:42 It's the same provocative violence.
04:44 The violence is on the part of the same state.
04:47 The same regime is leading the young people to flee this country.
04:51 There is nothing.
04:53 The young man has no thoughts at all.
04:56 He has no thoughts to think about,
04:58 and studies.
05:00 Yes, he's going to study, but for what?
05:02 To be a farmer? Or for what?
05:04 For nothing.
05:05 And then they get high.
05:07 What is the truth of Cuba's drugs? It's the rum.
05:09 The drug of Cuba is the rum.
05:12 And it's rum everywhere in Cuba, from Pinar del Río,
05:14 to the island of Juventud, to the special municipality.
05:16 To Guantánamo, wherever it is, it's rum.
05:18 The first thing they offer in the cafeteria is rum,
05:20 at different prices.
05:22 There is no big offer, nothing.
05:24 They are just cousins who want to make an offer,
05:26 and they are different offers to everything.
05:28 Nobody knows the suffering of the youth of Cuba.
05:31 And the youth of Cuba has been lost,
05:33 thanks to the fact that 70% of the youth of Cuba
05:36 have left this country,
05:38 and have arrived in all of America,
05:40 in El Salvador, in Honduras, wherever they want to go.
05:42 And a large part in the United States.
05:44 Most of these young people who are using this violence
05:48 are children of military families.
05:51 These are things that are seen in the newspaper normally.
05:54 These are not things that are being invented,
05:57 or anything similar.
05:58 It is what is real.
06:00 And we have to live in the face of reality.
06:02 There are mothers who do not have food to feed their children.
06:05 When they see children crying,
06:07 they get upset and mistreat the children.
06:10 This is also violence.
06:12 Because they enter a state of despair,
06:15 they do not know what they are going to do,
06:17 and they generate violence.
06:20 Young people, as I told you,
06:22 consuming drugs, drinking alcohol,
06:26 they go to violence.
06:29 Because they do not have a place where they can recreate,
06:32 they do not have a place where they can feel comfortable.
06:35 And because of the need,
06:37 they end up in trouble.
06:39 Or hurting themselves with weapons,
06:41 or stealing,
06:43 or that kind of thing.
06:45 And so are all the families of today in Guantanamo.
06:49 One over the other.
06:50 And the year is ending in Cuba.
06:52 I am from Guantanamo, and I say
06:54 that there are a few days left for the year to end.
06:57 And the fact of violence,
06:58 next year, will be more serious.
07:01 And we will see it before February ends.
07:04 We will wait until February 14th,
07:06 or until February 15th.
07:07 And they will tell me the reason.
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