¿Por qué hay tanta violencia en Guantánamo? Encuesta ciudadana

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¿Por qué hay tanta violencia en Guantánamo? Ciudadanos de la provincia Guantánamo, ubicada al oriente de Cuba, opinaron acerca de la violencia existente en la provincia y en el país.

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00:00 The problems, the violence that is being generated in Guantanamo

00:04 more frequently is due to the need that the country has.

00:09 I can tell you something about that.

00:12 The problems as such, hijacking, robbery with violence,

00:17 robbery in a house, in a house inhabited or uninhabited,

00:21 that order of things is the product of the same need.

00:26 Because people, when they feel pressured not to have much to give,

00:31 what food to give their children, that generates violence.

00:35 And that is what is bringing with it all this problem that we are facing now.

00:41 Among them, youth is not able to organize themselves.

00:44 Why don't they organize themselves?

00:46 Because they don't have to support themselves as such.

00:50 And they support themselves in the same violence.

00:53 They start drinking alcohol, they start taking drugs,

00:58 and that is what forces them to say the word "violence".

01:03 But in our genre, it's "cutting oneself".

01:05 The Guantanamo violence exists for many reasons.

01:08 One, because of the same economic crisis that exists,

01:12 youth feels forced to do different atrocities

01:18 to be able to buy a pair of shoes,

01:22 or to be able to buy some food.

01:24 Because there is not so much clothing, but food.

01:26 Food is the most expensive thing in life.

01:29 And so, youth is forced to go to any activity.

01:36 They understand that going to a Saturday or Sunday,

01:40 to any club, or whatever, is not allowed.

01:43 And that invades the audience.

01:45 The violence here in Guantanamo is terrible.

01:47 Here you can't go out, people are robbed all the time,

01:50 institutions are robbed.

01:51 And the government doesn't do anything about it,

01:53 because they don't take action.

01:54 It's the same thing, and the violence is increasing.

01:56 The people feel oppressed by all the violence.

02:00 Look, they took away a 14-year-old boy's life.

02:03 And who answers to that?

02:05 They killed him with an 8-punch.

02:07 And no one has answered to that.

02:10 There are stabs, there are machetes.

02:12 They are robbing motorists, they are stealing in wineries.

02:15 I'm one of those people.

02:18 You can't believe it, because the institutions in the country

02:21 are not taking the measures they should.

02:23 They don't look at who is stealing, they don't care about that.

02:26 They are taking the wrongdoing.

02:28 - What do they do?

02:29 - They don't do anything, the police don't do anything to avoid that.

02:31 Wherever you see them, you see them sitting, looking up at the sky.

02:34 The police don't do their job here.

02:36 They are doing it wrong.

02:37 They are not working against the crime.

02:39 You call them and wait for the problem to pass,

02:41 to go and say, "After everything is over,

02:43 after they have killed, after they have robbed."

02:45 The police don't do anything here.

02:47 - Yes, it's true.

02:48 Every day, there is a murder.

02:50 This morning, they killed a machete, a musician,

02:53 and no one knows who it was.

02:55 The police didn't do anything.

02:57 There is too much crime here.

02:59 There are many murders, many robberies,

03:01 and I'm one of those people.

03:03 - The youth is looking for ways to survive

03:06 in this moment that is happening in this country.

03:10 And, among other things,

03:13 the youth feel like they have nothing.

03:16 When they feel like they have nothing,

03:18 they go to the fastest and easiest way,

03:21 to attack people who have money or a better standard of living,

03:25 and to rob them.

03:28 And almost all the youth of Cuba is in prison for that.

03:32 Do you understand?

03:34 There are several and thousands.

03:36 We can't say now, there are moments,

03:38 but there are daily.

03:40 What you can't comment on,

03:42 but we know, all the same people from Guantanamo.

03:44 We know that there are thousands of daily events.

03:48 The same government is hiding it.

03:51 We know that one of them attacked,

03:54 the other one did it, and the other one is in prison.

03:57 And in the squares, and all the activities.

04:00 And all the activities that the government does

04:03 are activities to seek violence.

04:05 They are activities of the crowd,

04:07 they are activities of drinking beer, of drinking rum,

04:10 and they don't take anything else, because they don't take anything to eat.

04:13 They are the "misfrimes" that are working on this.

04:16 And the youth go there to drink alcohol.

04:18 And what is the cheapest alcohol?

04:20 The government puts the rum,

04:22 the rum that costs 500, 100 pesos,

04:24 and they are looking for the same young man,

04:26 the little money that the father can give him,

04:29 which is the rum that costs 125, 150 pesos.

04:32 And it's a cheap rum.

04:34 They make the same people a criollo rum,

04:36 which makes them drunk.

04:38 It's like a drug.

04:40 It's not the real rum that the government has.

04:42 It's the same provocative violence.

04:44 The violence is on the part of the same state.

04:47 The same regime is leading the young people to flee this country.

04:51 There is nothing.

04:53 The young man has no thoughts at all.

04:56 He has no thoughts to think about,

04:58 and studies.

05:00 Yes, he's going to study, but for what?

05:02 To be a farmer? Or for what?

05:04 For nothing.

05:05 And then they get high.

05:07 What is the truth of Cuba's drugs? It's the rum.

05:09 The drug of Cuba is the rum.

05:12 And it's rum everywhere in Cuba, from Pinar del Río,

05:14 to the island of Juventud, to the special municipality.

05:16 To Guantánamo, wherever it is, it's rum.

05:18 The first thing they offer in the cafeteria is rum,

05:20 at different prices.

05:22 There is no big offer, nothing.

05:24 They are just cousins who want to make an offer,

05:26 and they are different offers to everything.

05:28 Nobody knows the suffering of the youth of Cuba.

05:31 And the youth of Cuba has been lost,

05:33 thanks to the fact that 70% of the youth of Cuba

05:36 have left this country,

05:38 and have arrived in all of America,

05:40 in El Salvador, in Honduras, wherever they want to go.

05:42 And a large part in the United States.

05:44 Most of these young people who are using this violence

05:48 are children of military families.

05:51 These are things that are seen in the newspaper normally.

05:54 These are not things that are being invented,

05:57 or anything similar.

05:58 It is what is real.

06:00 And we have to live in the face of reality.

06:02 There are mothers who do not have food to feed their children.

06:05 When they see children crying,

06:07 they get upset and mistreat the children.

06:10 This is also violence.

06:12 Because they enter a state of despair,

06:15 they do not know what they are going to do,

06:17 and they generate violence.

06:20 Young people, as I told you,

06:22 consuming drugs, drinking alcohol,

06:26 they go to violence.

06:29 Because they do not have a place where they can recreate,

06:32 they do not have a place where they can feel comfortable.

06:35 And because of the need,

06:37 they end up in trouble.

06:39 Or hurting themselves with weapons,

06:41 or stealing,

06:43 or that kind of thing.

06:45 And so are all the families of today in Guantanamo.

06:49 One over the other.

06:50 And the year is ending in Cuba.

06:52 I am from Guantanamo, and I say

06:54 that there are a few days left for the year to end.

06:57 And the fact of violence,

06:58 next year, will be more serious.

07:01 And we will see it before February ends.

07:04 We will wait until February 14th,

07:06 or until February 15th.

07:07 And they will tell me the reason.

07:09 (dramatic music)

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