Jose Marti Liberty

“Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it…” José Martí’s word have never rang more true. There never been a more liberty-loving generation than my own, and never one that was so far from understanding how to achieve it. I am regularly encountered by those who are genuinely believers of expanded personal freedoms, yet tout a system that not only temporarily represses personal freedoms, but if allowed to act in the long run, fully extinguishes them. Many times, for the sake of civility and niceties, forced to swallow all of the experiences of both myself and my family in societies which these people have never experiences and hopefully will not be unfortunate enough to experience. Liberty is a concept that most don’t recognize
So I can only imagine how in such as place as Cuba, were the developments mirrored those of Venezuela, suffered under much faster, destructive, and violent torrent of changes, and became the tragic example of cruelty and abuse under centralized authority. Thus, my grandmother’s journey into Caracas, and my grandfather’s emigration from the expanding Soviet State, led to my eventual birth in the city, and my later experiences as a Venezuelan displaced and forced to leave for my own protection. However, thanks to the liberty I can live and thrive in on a day to day basis, I can choose, create, and learn without fear of some of the basic necessities being confiscated to kept from me. I can grow without fear of growing too much for the safety, comfort, and pleasure of a group of people who never have and will never care about my wellbeing, and that confidence is something that I can truly appreciate now as someone who has seen what it is like to live without