I’m Young, Cuban and Staying to Fight
For 12 years the government allowed a march through the streets in support of L.G.B.T.Q. rights. This year, the regime ordered its cancellation. Nevertheless, I and a group of friends joined others in May and peacefully walked seven blocks before a cordon of police officers violently shut down the march. The confrontation was just another example of a great dichotomy in Cuba, an island divided — and threatened — by age.
Sixty years after the revolution, young Cubans like myself and my friends must decide whether to leave the island to avoid suffering the consequences of dictatorship — authoritarianism, repression and a failed economic model — or stay and push for change.… Seguir leyendo »
