Silvio welcomes the departure of the Castro regime – political corner economy

The extraordinary author and troubadour Silvio Rodríguez, an early official member of the Cuban regime, has just called for an “amnesty” for hundreds of people arrested after the widespread protests two Sundays calling for freedom.

The declaration has enormous symbolic value. Silvio Rodríguez is, to begin with, the sacred cow of the Castro intelligentsia. For decades he was the herald of Havana’s propaganda. A sort of high priest of the progressive cult who has always justified the system of power that the Argentinian specialist Claudia Hilb calls “a regime of total domination”.

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In addition to this, Rodríguez not only calls for an amnesty – which implies admitting the political impracticability of the arrests – but also in particular for Cubans “who have not been violent”, which implies admitting that he was jailed for the simple act of protesting.

It is as if Silvio Rodríguez is also starting to greet the Castro regime which is leaving. Until now, the singer-songwriter had not shaken the pulse to support the worst repressive actions. Until 2010, it even justified, although ambiguously and with subsequent retractions, the executions of rafters who tried to steal a boat and the death penalty in general.

This is not the only symbol that seems to mark an end.

An editorial in the Diario de Cuba has just noted that, since the demonstrations, the unelected President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz Canel, has stopped closing his speeches with the traditional harangue “Fatherland or death!”, To which the demonstrators owed always respond with “We will win!” The slogan died at the hands of another morally superior slogan, “Homeland and Life,” which is the one coined by protesters calling for change. The Revolution has remained silent.

The characters and rites of Castroism are not only delayed in Cuba. In Rosario, Argentina, the university group “Alternativa” asks to withdraw from Che Guevara the illustrious post-mortem citizenship which was granted to him by the Deliberative Council in 2003. They also ask that his name of places and monuments be withdrawn . “We don’t want a murderer’s name,” they say. No one knows if they will be successful, but some time ago the claim itself was unthinkable.

The Cuban regime is unraveling. Not just in the widespread misery it has caused. His speech is diluted, a jumble of cunning arguments, historical lies and cynical justifications, decorated with bloodthirsty heroes and disguised as romanticism.