Miami/I recommend to the enemies of Castro’s totalitarianism – governments and people – not to be fooled. It is true that they are inept in the art or science of governing, absolutely incapable in the production of wealth, but when it comes to manipulation and political control, they are consecrated masters, among other conditions, because they are unscrupulous subjects.
For decades, opponents of Castroism have underestimated that system’s abilities to survive and do harm. Lies and deception are the tools they best handle, they transmute like salamanders and. As such, they are toxic for democracies and citizen rights.
This is not the first time that the Castro regime promises changes that it never materializes, because as the saying goes “they buy fish and they get scared in the eyes.” The impoverishment of the country has been a political constant because totalitarianism is certain that economic independence leads to politics.
The leaders of Castroism have always had an absolute and eternity vision when it comes to power
The leaders of Castroism have always had an absolute and eternity vision when it comes to power. They have many similarities with theocratic regimes, they act as religious fundamentalists, being inflexible in accepting any measure that puts their imperial authority at stake.
It is true that the current deterioration is unprecedented and the decisions of the United States Government have the totalitarian system in the final count. However, no quarter can be given to them, because they put on a theatrical show capable of confusing Tyrians and Trojans long enough for Washington to change perspectives and the Cubans once again exhaust themselves between the stick and very few carrots.
The recent statements by the State Department describing the package of 176 economic reforms announced by the dictatorship as “superficial smoke signals” and a “typical strategy” are very correct.
The recent statements by the State Department describing the package of 176 economic reforms as “superficial smoke signals” are very correct.
They are right when they say that Castroism tries to create an illusion of openness so that international pressure stops, because they know that when the people assume the role that corresponds to them, not even the Chinese doctor will save them, an expression from the Cuban proverb that means that there is no possible cure.
Castroism has proven to be a very talented actor, with a well-articulated script developed in a scenario in which the people have occupied the worst positions, but the citizen is fed up with so much misery.
I have no doubt that the dictatorship deeply fears the United States and everything that this nation represents for being contrary to Castro’s proposals; I am convinced that he would resent the end of the dishonest assistance that the European Union has been consistently providing him, but my unquestionable certainty is that what he fears most is the fury of the population.
The system, with these proposals, seeks to neutralize the sectors of the Government that do not have access to the privileges of the central apparatus. Furthermore, it seeks to confuse the population, fed up with the absolute misery that degrades them, a situation that has led them to protest civically, generating a climate of instability that can turn the bayonets that the soldier, also in misfortune, wields.
The system seeks to neutralize the sectors of the Government that do not have access to the privileges of the central apparatus
The Castros, Díaz-Canel and all the hitmen who have served them for decades know what the masses are capable of when they break the chains. They have consciously subjected the people to conditions of extreme misery, humiliated and degraded people to unimaginable levels and this breeds a hatred and a thirst for settling scores that history has reflected numerous times.
Cuba has experienced it, and the nonagenarians who have destroyed the country and put the nation at risk know it, although, just in case, I remind them of the extreme evil to which popular anger can reach.
After the overthrow of the general-dictator Gerardo Machado, the body of one of his most notable henchmen, Brigadier Antonio Ainciart Agüero, was exhumed from a mass grave in the Marianao cemetery and taken by the mobs to the University of Havana to be hung from a lamppost. While they were trying to do so, the rope broke and the decomposing body fell to the ground, then student leader Eduardo Chibas intervened, who at gunpoint prevented the desecration from continuing.
History can repeat itself, although not exactly to absolve tyrants and tyranny.
