How many policemen, mommy!, says Mily, the picaresque and surprised 7-year-old girl who tells me that she misses her semi-boarding school Julián Santana, in this city, while she accompanies her mother at the butcher shop.
Las Tunas.- In fact, on a daily basis, hundreds of members of the different forces and dependencies of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) and the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) also wear the decorum responsible for taking care of life on their uniforms, which attempts to snatch away a disease called COVID-19.
From dawn until the shops are closed - Mily listens carefully - they are here so we don't get sick. See, they don't let people get close and demand that they bring the protective masks. And in this daily puzzle, this has been one of the main missions of law enforcement officers in this province and the country for more than two months.
This Saturday, June 6, the MININT celebrates its 59th anniversary. However, there are no celebrations like years ago. They honor the date of standing, under and intense sun and irritating heat, in constant vigilance, so that social indisciplines are not the trigger for that time bomb that means a possible outbreak of the deadly pandemic.
Mily and her mom line up. In the surroundings, not everyone respects and, from time to time, the lieutenant who guards the sales at the Leningrado shopping complex and agricultural market has to give a strong voice.
While I'm around, nobody congratulates him, but over there, a woman who returns to the butcher's line, after talking to him, says to her neighbor: “He understood and said we can buy. They have tremendous resistance; I do not know how they can stand so many hours on their feet. They must put everyone a medal."
And in those popular, intimate confidences, I feel the silent recognition of the most, of all those people from Las Tunas who also applaud for them every night, because, since the sun rises, they enter to their “red zones” in shops, streets, markets and any part, with how much risk is generated by the fact of not staying at home.
