In person and with clarity, the president Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the Secretary of Economy and the Boss of the Commission for the Implementation of the Lineaments cleared some weeks ago doubts and rumors with the announcement of causes and steps of the monetary classification, indispensable inside the Economic and Social Strategy of Cuba.

Three days of television time, with explanations and answers, of dialogue in cellars and on the Internet and later many other days of explanations and government measures reaffirmed us specific certainties; the first: the Cuban continues being a cause with the humble ones and for the well of all.

Only a socialist State as this remains wakeful foreseeing until the most minimum consequence in a process that lapses in calculators and stock exchanges in other latitudes. They are economic decisions, yes, but born in here with the inherent social shade of the different system that we determine to build.

So the transparency in the alert that starting from the denominated day zero won't conclude the actions neither the difficulties. It will begin the most difficult itinerary then, just as Fidel warn us to the victory of the Revolution.

As the maximum authorities have already explained everything won't be solved from overnight only because we have a single currency and only one exchange rate, new prices, revenues that will try to be a better repay, less subsidy. Much it will have to be done and much more to correct so that the productive forces are truly mobilized, not only on the numbers of incorporate or normative letters, but also in the reinforcement of those activities that may contribute the most to the economy, generate exportation or guarantee the national consumption.

Yes, there won't still be the justness that we dream; the wage will grow in bills but not in the purchase capacity; (at least not in the initial moments) we will have to shake off the paternalism that deepens us in inequalities in a search of egalitarianism, to begin to protect people and concrete families and to assist to each one according to its necessity; we will demand so that each human being involved in will act right interpreting and to summing up each measure well. Those are true statements that it won't take us for surprise.

The success will depend, as many tasks in this country, of the will and of the collective effort, so that, for example who don't have employment but yes they "work" deceiving the authorities and exploding the others will be impelled to work and don't find in the breaches of internal control and the fat view of certain inspectors, the "raw materials" of its modus vivendi.

Because we cannot call each other to deceit, not only the prices without subsidy will "have a tight budget" to those that today doesn't contribute, and they receive the same benefits that the most productive worker. The health, the education, the tranquility will remain for free and same for them and their relatives, for what the moral force of a society that demands to them, will be decisive for the execution of one of the popular biggest yearnings: that everybody who is in capacity of working it is bound to do it.

Because not for fun they spoke of monetary classification after the Economic and Social Strategy. Without the four processes that will lapse now to the unison we could not plan a guarantee of foods with fewer imports, neither bigger autonomy of the socialist company and the non-state actors' participation, neither incentives to the production.

In 2011, most of the Cubans sit at the family national table, and we project the future. From back then to now on they didn't lack external barriers (mainly, measures that block our finances and trade) and as well internal ones (natural phenomena and human botched works) to draw, which postponed several of those purposes. Almost ten years later we keep on jumping some of them, even, more complex ones, but the decisions cannot wait, as difficult as they are. Almost ten years later, here we are, projecting, this time the hard and polemic today that will take us to better tomorrow.

After their triumph on January 1st of 1959, the biggest liberation fight of Latin America, in the voice of Fidel, he encouraged us to read and not to be naive, and so on the Cubans trusted and contributed. Then, personified in the Commander in Chief's genius to be ahead of the history, the Revolution assured that it would not fall after the crumbling of the socialism in Europe, and the Cubans trusted, and they resisted. Now, that same ideal summons us to continue fighting with sovereignty and united by the country that we want, and the Cubans trust, and we will strengthen its economy with the all our hands together.

They are certainties that don't need to be ordered. Those are there, planted in the soul of the nation by the initiators of our freedom and the one that carry on: collective contributions, unity in the resistance and trust.

 

Translated by Mariam Heredia (Student)

Review by Linet Acuña Quilez