CUBITANOW Newsroom ~ Tuesday, May 2, 2023
A Cuban identified himself as Will Smith’s character in “I am legend,” which shows the city of Cárdenas with no traffic, utterly empty due to Cuba’s fuel shortages.
Lachy Otero Montoro made a humorous comment, but one which reflects the serious situation the island is in and which emphasizes the emigration of citizens.
The netizen posted his picture, which imitated a poster for the film I Am Legend, in which Will Smith lives in a dystopian world in which there are almost no sane people left because they all suffer from a disease that turns them into monsters has.
Otero Montoro uses the idea to create an analogy with his own loneliness in a city where nobody goes out on Sundays and he himself has no one to call because all his friends have left the country.
“I’m a legend… When you’re left alone because all your friends have left and you have no one to call on a Sunday without gas, at least Will Smith had a dog, look at Cárdenas,” writes the Cuban.
“This country is pathetic where the welfare of the people is least important. If I could choose life, I would rather not have been born here,” says one netizen in dozens of comments generated by the publication.
“Every day I start to think we’re living in a horror movie, but the reality is we’re almost zombies. We’re not that far away,” warns a Cuban woman.
“How sad, speechless. The empty streets, the houses with a member of the house who left us. Everything is very sad, there is too much stress and what can I say, besides the problems that each of us has especially in his life. Happiness does not exist, only the happy moments, which are already very few. May God bless you all always,” one user wrote.
Amid the disappointment offered by the panorama, another Cuban recalls that the situation can become even more complex when summer arrives.
“This is the big beginning of what’s coming, let July and August come when the thermoelectric plants need maintenance or otherwise go down, so every year,” he warns of a possible increase in blackouts.
Despite the crisis Cuba is suffering from in all areas of society, Cuba’s Economy Minister Alejandro Gil Fernández assured in early April that the country was “on the right track”.
Gil Fernández made statements after the Cuban regime decided to reverse a measure imposed in 2021 and begin accepting dollar deposits in the island’s banks. Although a positive measure, it still contradicts previous statements by Miguel Díaz-Canel’s government, but Minister Alejandro Gil assured that “allowing deposits in bank accounts on the island is part of the plan for gradual recovery corresponds to the country”.
“USD banking supports gradual economic recovery. It has been accepted in the forex market since August 2022; Now you can bank and create MLC cards, which would be possible with currencies other than the USD. We’re going in the right direction,” the senior official wrote on Twitter.
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