The last time that the Revolution Square was seen crowded was on May 1, 2019. The world always looks strangely at the parade that takes place in Cuba for International Workers' Day. Perhaps because in all latitudes people do not live the same. The last photo of the entire country walking through the squares, with flags, posters, with music, without masks... was that May 1st, 3 years ago.

Then everything changed, in Cuba and in the world. In 2020, that international day resulted in desolate cities, empty squares and many people, in the midst of the pandemic, fighting to save others in hospitals and isolation centers. In Berlin, for example, a sign on the pavement in front of the Brandenburg Gate read: "One is not alone in solidarity." In Zurich a man was seen playing a saxophone on his balcony.

In Cuba, there were flags on balconies and windows, and people applauded their doctors, a country that was bleeding in the fight against COVID-19. To a country that saved.

“Grandma gets up early, like every day, with or without a pandemic. Its body is timed for seven in the morning, sometimes earlier. It says that today a car passed by with a horn playing the national anthem. 'That the Homeland contemplates you proudly'. Then, it took out the flag, with the colors diminished by time, but beautiful”.

Two years later this Sunday will be different. Cuba is not the same as it was in 2020. It is not the same as yesterday. In the midst of a complex economic situation, if something has not changed, it is that the places will be filled again, and the reasons can be many, they can be diverse. I stay with this: despite everything, this country has, inexorably, to make a way, to walk. And above all, be united.