By Eduardo N. Cordovi Hernandez
HAVANA TIMES – Well, the year is coming to an end, and I haven’t finished writing any of the several books that I already have quite advanced. I don’t think it has been a bad year for that reason; I would say it was sufficiently productive but inefficient in the finishing process. I believe that the year 2024 is going to be effective for completions, which predisposes for other beginnings.
That’s the dynamic of life, according to those who know.
No! I have to repeat what I told a friend; I am not predicting anything. People hear you speak, and they think you’re saying things you haven’t even thought about. And even if you deny it, they think you’re denying it as a joke. As if I had a crystal ball or had ever claimed to be a fortune teller.
It’s not for nothing because, without making a fuss, everyone is inside knowing that times are tough, and things are not going well. I think that, for many years, perhaps since the financial crisis of the early 1920s, known as the “lean cow” years, Cuba has not suffered such a severe economic crisis. Of course, this one still doesn’t compare to that; but if we consider the traditional legend that economic crises come in seven-year cycles… well, brace yourselves because tough times are ahead! As an old cha-cha-cha song by the America Orchestra used to say, in times when Enrique Jorrin was leading it, the father of this musical genre.
Regardless, you have to be with the times, because a shrimp that sleeps gets carried away by the current, and it’s better that they say: here ran a coward than here died a brave person, even if many want the opposite because the real issue is that nobody wants to take the bull by the horns.
There are a thousand theories
