But those governing, better than anyone else,know that a high percentage of the population is paralyzed by fear, and no one is going to oppose in public the imprisonment and the condemnation to forced silence of dissidence and independent journalism. Even though they do not all agree, the majority will offer the government its approval and support. And we can already envision what we can expect from the national communication media, controlled by the Communist Party. Something that will come to light if nothing else is the pathological fear people have lived with for the last 40 years. No one wants to catch the attention of the political police or of the neighborhood or workplace informants.
People complain daily that they want to emigrate.
But they prefer routine to the courage of speaking what they think. On top of this, there is the despairing and exhausting game of survival. Or to take from the school where he teaches a few pencils or copybooks donated by some ONG organization friendly to Castro. If it were to cover them, it would then cut off the umbilical cord through which much of the population survives. For that reason it leaves a little crack open.