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<div><strong><span style="font-size:24pt">An answer to the haters</span></strong></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt">Translated by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt">A lady tells me that solidarity
among Cubans on the Island is a "lie", because in Cuba "nobody has a
piece of bread to share". Another "Cuban" who lives abroad, expressed
that the thousands of men and women who donated their blood yesterday in
Cuba are "hungry rams". </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt">I tell you something, my dear
haters. I know that in Cuba there are a million needs. But what you say
implies the false idea that my people are a country of beggars, without a
bite to eat. You say that Cubans are an amorphous mass of "starving and
hungry" people, without a piece of bread to give, without a plate of
rice and beans to share. What a crude and mean-spirited statement! How
much venom spilled on those who struggle, work and dream in that
blockaded island! How painful to read so much hatred! How much infamy,
now, when what is needed is solidarity, love and empathy! When warm
corpses still lie under the rubble!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt">There is little in Cuba, it is true.
I have seen it with my own eyes. But that has not been the only thing I
have seen. These noble people, these good people, have reenacted the
multiplication of the loaves and fishes. So, shortages and all, they
have created five vaccines against the pandemic. Those scientists, who
were our little friends as children, are the glory of Cuba and the glory
of the world. Thus, with a thousand needs, with a blockade that has
tightened in the midst of the pandemic, those you call "wretched" and
"rams", those who have "not even enough to share a crust", those
"beggars", have traveled the world giving away health and cultivating
love in a thousand corners of the planet. In that country, which you
call "starving beggars", there is no child malnutrition. In that nation
of "paupers," all children go to school.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt">Where did you bury your heart, dear
hater? It is one thing to have a soul of stone and another to, in the
midst of disaster, denigrate those who suffer, rejoice in pain and
misfortune and, on top of that, defame your own people. Yesterday, the
neighbors did take food to the rescuers, there are the photos and the
testimonies. The self-employed, the owners of cafes, or the housewives,
have gone to the scene of the disaster and have shared the "loaves and
fishes". The Cuban, anyone! extended his hand to those who sweat and
struggle, to those who work side by side to look for survivors and to
give Christian burial to the fallen. Those "rams", "beggars" and
"cowards" have mobilized to rescue, to save and to give life with full
hands. Not only in Havana: In all of Cuba!</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt">What's more, thousands of those
"cowards" have gone to donate their blood, listen well, their blood!
their noble and courageous blood. Because Cubans are like that, they
always give what little or how much they have. These people,
"incapable", "ram" and "indigent", these people, have a lineage of
titans and giants. And they know it. And the decent Cubans who live far
away know it too. We know it because we come from there, because we have
the same genes, because we are like them. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt">Wash your mouths when you are going to talk about the Cuban people, for fuck's sake! </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt">Haters! Caines! If you are not
capable of being moved by love and dedication; if you are not moved by
the sacrifice of your own people: Shut up! Shut up! Shut your mouths and
be quiet! </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:14pt">Carlos Lazo</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:14pt">May 7, 2022</span></div>
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