they have failed to build or have lost their homes . Insecurity , evictions and disease-prone environments , as well as the most acute deficiencies , are realities that she was forced to reiterate in her follow-up visit . Practically , the situation has not changed for the unfortunate tenants and it was recently aggravated by the death of a girl , who fell in an open cistern at night . Housing is also the subject addressed by Irel Gómez in “ How could Cubans live 120 years ?” It focuses on how the construction of tourist facilities , centers for collecting hard currency and other areas of great governmental interest in Camagüey , sharply contrasts with the proliferation of shanty towns and their consequences , which are increasingly detrimental to the wellbeing of the elder . There is an obvious lack of official and too much inertia for trying to alleviate at least such a deplorable situation . To improve it , the political discourse alludes sometimes , as part of the evident demagoguery , to concerns and possible actions . Some projects have even been started by official institutions under government control , but their results are nothing more than superfluous verbal or written statements . Precisely a new expression of this modality is referred to by Jorge Amado Robert in “ Challenges of Racial Issues and Human Rights ”. The author examines a proposal for analyzing it and alerts on the need to do so without ideological conditioning and with the participation of all the concerned people , including the independent movements and individuals that , from the civil society , are committed to finding solutions . Otherwise , the inconsistencies of previous projects and programs will remain . The section is enriched with varied themes affecting Cuban society . Pedro Tamayo writes in “ Dignity : A Chant to The Social Conscience ” about a life experience at a public place . In a convincing way , the author shows the daily violence and physical and mental abuse faced by some people due to their sexual orientation . This case included how law enforcement agents abstained from stopping such violence . Through different ways and from different angles , two other pieces of writing deal with the same problem : “ Yaima Pardo ...,” by Nonardo Perea , and “ Cuban Cinema and Homosexuality ,” by Julio Aleaga . In the State and Society section , José Hugo Fernández brings us a truly poignant theme given its consequences for the present and future of the Cuban society : “ Institutional Abuse Against Children ...” It does not question how the government using infants for its propaganda chain about the benevolent social and educational programs designed for childhood . It also goes against the children ’ s indoctrination , from the earliest ages , through the channels of the revolutionary ideology and the repetition of clichés without the slightest reasoning or the minimal awareness by the children of the real meaning in what they are taught to repeat as parrots . Such training , as Jose Hugo reveals , is really abusive : " As long as the political indoctrination is not nominated as what it is : an institutional abuse against childhood — crime against humanity —, the official reports and institutions related to the regime ( without violating the legal truths ) features child care in Cuba , which is a paradigm for other third world countries ”. Such a procedure shatters José Martí ’ s maxim : " Be educated to be free ." The author brings up the systematic and massive desertion of old educators while presenting the true causes of their decisions , which in fact have harmed the education system . The problems of public health add up . Roberto Miguel Santana , resident in Antilla , Holguín , shows “ The True Face of the Cuban Health System ,”
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