Yoani Sanchez: my mother and the Onions [View all]

[Socialistlemur]

Quoted from 14 y medio, written by the Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez.

At times, when I talk to my mamá, I explain the need for Cuba to open itself up to democracy, to respect human rights and to establish freedom. She listens to me in silence for a while. After some minutes, she changes the conversation and tells me about the eggs that haven’t come, the bureaucrat who mistreated her, or the water leak at the corner of her house. Then, I ask her how much onions cost. My mother has to pay out three days worth of her pension to buy a pound of onions. I no longer have to say anything, she just concludes, “This country has to change.”

http://generacionyen.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/my-mother-and-the-onions/