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solved, a Cuban should be neither poor
nor black. Written and said so, it sounds
like a pure lie, but it’s true.
The sociopolitical problem is that
politics has virtually become the whole
content of society. In each time interval,
every Cuban run, from birth to death,
through a campaign of revolutionary
rhetoric with slogans, populist speeches,
and tirades. The revolution is the daily
bread; living for the revolution is the
daily work. Thus, the falsehood turned
into truth. World solidarity is an
ordinance and capitalism is evil and
inhuman.
The sociocultural problem is simple:
you cannot find any sense in such an
existential vacuum like Cuba nowadays.

The dysfunctional actions by the
government apparatus have granted
certain priorities to people of Africa
descent in the fields of sports and
artistic culture. The latter is primarily
understood as music and dance, both
stemming and naturally flowing from
the ancestral roots across the Atlantic.
These groups of African descent are
skilled professionals in certain areas,
but many of them actually lack the
necessary support. Despite the preached
equality, they are marginalized. Is it so
difficult to change this situation? Or it is
rather that the government does not
want to solve the triple problem that
affects so many people in Cuba today?

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