By: Santiago Romero MSc.
Government.- A timely concept is better positioned in the Party’s policy, the government on foot, side by side in the communities, as it is often called, in correspondence with most of the problems and their solutions, whether addressed in the National Assembly of People’s Power as in the districts or in consultations from the Village Council, although there is still much to be done in this regard.
I have seen several Party secretaries and their officials on foot looking after the problems, although the people are still not -totally- satisfied with what has been achieved, because they demand more systematic treatment and not to announce visits or tours that allow “staging scenarios” in the localities, something that people do not tolerate at all.
It is proven beyond any doubt that the fate of the country is decided in the neighborhoods, districts, communities and Village Councils, even when there is a systematic approach with the people, there is no room for fake news, or other types of misdeeds through social networks.
I have seen Beatriz Johnson, secretary general of the Provincial Committee of the Party and Yaneydis Hechavarria, our current municipal mayor many times on foot, responding with equanimity before the necessary eradication of the lack of sensitivity and continue the confrontation to bureaucracy and any kind of hindrances in the services to the people.
There are others who learned early the power of word, of face-to-face dialog, of how close one feels the beating of hearts in the outskirts of town, of the complaints of the elderly and of the worker who never received a correct answer, or an answer close to reality.
I also know of the indolence of officials who hardly contact the people, of those formally visit the Santiago Nights, to the sports events in local gyms, even to the grocery store where the daily pulse of Cuban events is, just as in the bus stops, trucks and motorcycles where many people wonder why they raised fares to Versalles, Ciudamar, Punta Gorda, El Cristo … Where are the traffic police, the inspectors and even ourselves, the journalists?
If the ordinary Cuban is the one living daily life, the leaders cannot always be moving in vehicles. President Diaz Canel called to zero tolerance for the indolent, for the rascals and for the lazy!
And then he stressed at the closing of the last plenary session of the PCC, how we can multiply the example of leading individuals and collectives throughout the country, and set an example known thanks to the government on foot:
Only with the government on foot we can know who are the ones that with their own forces in agriculture, in the energy producer plants, in military enterprises march forward; this is still the exception, but one day will be the rule in this country of talented and enterprising people who have the right and the possibility of realizing their dreams in Cuba.
