The night will not be eternal

July 31, 2018 12:12 pm

I have read with pleasure the posthumous book of Oswaldo Payá, Sakharov Prize, which offers his life to trace paths of reunion to his compatriots, the Cubans, victims of satrapy who l & # 39; murders. I celebrate him as a Venezuelan, even more so, for his commitment to deep democracy, to understand that the homeland and the homeland are all or not at all.

Otea ways of struggle. Prevents the dangers Fix points of hope. He works on the reality and highlights the obligation to model it on principles. Review the story of what happened in Cuba, clarifying emotional clichés and mortgages: "I can not reconcile the image that the government offers of Cuba before the revolution, while There was something more than 6 million people living in this country, "he says, and he asks, where did they live, since only a few had a house, how are they not all died of diseases if medical care was reserved for those who paid? How did they dress, since almost everyone had to walk in rags except the rich?

I was at the baptism of his book The night will not be eternal at the request of Rosa María, his daughter and Ofelia Acevedo, his widow.The Leo lines of the text, like this: "Before and after the triumph of the revolution there was everything: dreams, love, heroism, pbadion, enthusiasm, hate, envy, but once achieved triumph, a lot of fear and total lack of freedom "

" The totalitarian regime & mldr; found the impudently applied formula of two countries, two Cubas and a single system. A Cuba full of misery and limitations and without opportunities & mldr; for the majority and another, more and more cynically exhibited, of a minority with all the power and all the privileges, which now appears as the new capitalists, without control or knowledge of citizenship. "L & # 39; author points out that Cuba de los Castro and Nicolás Maduro's Venezuela are not a coincidence, one adds, in favor of "the worst hybrid of capitalism and the absence of civil rights and The politics of communism. "

The Havana regime is sure that, although the Constitution allows it, there will be no citizens, not necessarily dissidents," with enough spiritual strength to challenge the totem. of terror ", able to jump" beyond the reservoir. "metaphor of Payá, which evokes the platonic myth of the cave in which they converted the whole country.

" Only faith, the ideals of freedom and defending the rights of his people support those who genuinely and courage embraces this peaceful struggle for liberation, dissidents or opponents, "he says. Two problems beset him. One, that "the culture of fear, poverty and misinformation produces despair and" mldr ", they generate the survival mentality"; another, that the hierarchs of power "do not make the change in depth, they deceive people and take the greatest advantage, following the tradition of corruption & mldr; while they make a reconversion of their privileges from the communist style to the capitalist. "

However, he indicates premises to make:

1. The strategy is that of rights, as a way and a goal. Be protagonists in their claim and do it in a growing way, as long as the changes that guarantee the transformations are not defined.
2. Unity in such a struggle must occur in a variety of styles, vocations and tactical orientations that enrich and strengthen pluralism. . The "block" as an idea never reaches its goals, by internal protagonisms and rivalries.
3. The transition as an objective, to be authentic must be controlled by the citizens and transparent and prevent the extension of the mafia state. the citizens "forge a nation project in the new stage of history". They must be heard and have their own voice, "because many politicians of different tendencies have the intention to embody the will" of them and decide for them: "This is the great danger "- says Payá – that at the time of change, the country" be reborn with a serious conbad malformation. "
4. There will be no free and competitive elections without repealing the laws that prevent them.
5. The diaspora can be protected, avoiding being linked to a "change of fraud" that makes it "participatory" its own oppression. "He is" banished to those who are denied rights by the regime, "so that their inclusion in the struggle must be made as part of the rights claim.
6. " The hope is now in the new generation "" Transition does not mean disintegration or chaos. "It must be conducted" with all the intelligence and sense of justice so as not to further punish the victim who is the people. "[19659010Itmustbeclearthatinthetransitionwhat"mustbedismantledattherootisthetotalitarianorder"Itisnotachangeoffaces

L & # 39; author of Night will not be eternal in short, preaches that "although we understand the existence in which we are involved, a process of reconciliation and liberation We, Cubans, stop showing us guilty or enemies to each other. "

Some, in fact, the least, insist it is enough for them to dilute their own faults or to cultivate "gattism". They do not believe in transformative exits, so that night gives way to dawn.

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