Cuba: the Revolution eats its children

Yes, we see them, and besides let us look at the work as admirable as it is horrible, by Francisco de Goya, Saturn devouring his son, to join the popular rebellion in Cuba, which the dinosaur dictatorship attacks, despite the fact that they have no weapons, only songs and spontaneous demonstrations, in violation of all human rights.

Saturn, owner and divinity of time – like the titan Cronos-, he eats his children so that they cannot succeed him. It’s mythology plus art, but these are the facts these days. Anyone who lived through the revolution of 59, or studied it instead of buying old and outdated phrases, knows that then Cuba fell in love with the world when they lowered their beards laden with epic and poetry.

The biggest names in thought enthusiastically approved the fall of Fulgencio Batista and the arrival of the revolution led by Fidel Castro Ruz, a lawyer by Jesuit training and destined for the myth of the hero, the biblical incarnation of David, the victor of Goliath, the Empire. , United States of America.

There was no need to wait. At a good pace, absolute power has settled in with the aim of building a single communist party.. As now, with a supreme leader, the suppression of private property, the forced collectivization, the persecution, the confinement and the “re-education” of homosexuals, the typical feats, in this case the record harvest to obtain more and more of sugar, ten million tons everyone had to work.

Che Guvara, one of the most popular revolutionaries, stepped in and led with his machete: the goal was not met, and the economy was already teetering with devastating effects.

Camilo Cienfuegos was also popular among those who came down from the mountains to Havana. With a vision inclined to a power without weakness but with democratic features, he is sent on an unknown mission: the plane carrying him disappears. There were no more Cienfuegos now. Huber Matos, writer, teacher, member of the July 26 Movement which helped overthrow the Batista regime, was critical of certain aspects of the imposed and expensive course: twenty years in prison. The accusation, the sedition.

The humiliating self-criticism and the “repentance” of the poet – great talent – Heberto Padilla would come after his book Out of Play. At the end of the confinement he had to expose himself to the association of writers to say that his whole outlook on anything was false and miserable. The poet had dared to question the Revolution, and Fidel attacked intellectuals as suspects of potential counter-revolutionaries. Mirror of Stalin’s purges, functional replica to smooth out discontent and disperse paranoia. Padilla had been appointed correspondent in the Soviet Union for the Prensa Latina agency founded by Gabriel García Márquez and Rodolfo Walsh. Koba was gone, nickname of Stalin, but his terrible footsteps left the poet seriously injured.

Revolution and blockade.

Here let me, not with a bureaucratic idea with such a long history, that it might be useful to take a look at the missile crisis, in 1962, where Cuba left Soviet atomic missiles stationed a stone’s throw away of American territory. The discovery had the world within tenths of blowing up Earth forever. There it meant a US military blockade on sea and air.

A look at the Maleconazo, a revolt of the Havanese people for lack of food, information, with an incessant indoctrination, of such importance that it demanded the presence of Castro to appease so many complaints and so much anger. Another during the special period, at the fall of the USSR – which supported his Latin American friend with millions of dollars a day until the cutoff of the stream -, where any resource was good to find the treasure of a chicken, rice, a bottle of the famous rum. Any resource, you don’t have to explain much. He had already returned from Cuban misadventures in Africa – maimed, killed and targets the troops did not understand – the blockade had been in place for a long time, while the bosses could now trade between many countries.

China was already arriving as a prodigious player in the world. Yes, but poverty, overcrowding, the prohibition not only of going to the beaches – for tourists – the caging that prevents them from leaving, the vital resource of remittances, the money that those who live outside Cuba send their relatives a whole equivalent country.

Explain the failure of Cuba with the sole argument of the blockade and deny – again, there was more lack of it – that it is a dictatorship made up of infants or very indoctrinated. Of course it’s a dictatorship, what are we talking about. Of course, dinosaur dictatorships breathe at one point with gasps and chokes. Of course, this phone that everyone has at their fingertips has more power than any wall and you can’t lie. Of course, this is about human rights, not interference or intervention. And to be foolish is to have violated human rights or to take them away or keep them at will. This is not to demand that the Cuban government immediately change and take another form, but to demand that the tired Revolution stop devouring its children.

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