In August 2006, due to health problems, Fidel Castro gives up power in favour of his brother Raul. For the first time after 48 straight years as leader of the country, the lìder maximo is forced to stand down and in the summer of the following year will be definitely out of the scene. A new opportunity to change seems to be arising for Cuba as it had already happened after the European socialist block collapse that rocked the boat and resulted in a international historical change.
In August 2006, due to health problems, Fidel Castro gives up power in favour of his brother Raul. For the first time after 48 straight years as leader of the country, the lìder maximo is forced to stand down and in the summer of the following year will be definitely out of the scene. A new opportunity to change seems to be arising for Cuba as it had already happened after the European socialist block collapse that rocked the boat and resulted in a international historical change. But once again the Cuban management seems to be unresponsive to the arising opportunity.
After the announcements done during the first 6 months and the expectations created Raul’s government vanishes the possibilities for a renovation with a series law measures that were intended to slow down the coming of a new future that everyone now demands. An extraordinary example is the exclusion of two ministers, Perez Roque and Lage, both oriented to a pluralist approach and politics. Once again all expectations are betrayed leaving the country still.
It is this “everyday same old thing†that all Cubans gave up to, the protagonist of this photographic project. The images want to be an attempt to tell this surreal and “dreaming†state that embraces the whole island’s life. People lives hanging in a frozen world: the perception of the everyday life is like a dilated universe made of an external awaiting during which nothing happens and an end is not even imagined.
Everywhere a sense of weariness is felt and the same has frazzle everyone’s conscience blurring even the deepest joys of life and the ability to fight which is part of the identity of this people. The scope of this photographic study is to accompany the Cuban in this long politic transition until a more stable and possible social and economic is reached.