MIAMI, United States. — Carlos Lage Dávila aimed to be the heir to the throne of the Castro brothers and ended up being sacked, accused by his own supporters of indulging in “the honeys of power.”
It was the year 2009 and Lage, who was for several years first vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, was separated from his position together with the then foreign minister Felipe Pérez Roque. It was, without a doubt, one of the great settling accounts perpetrated by Raúl Castro, who never had the high-ranking cadres promoted by the great dictator in his plans.
Lage and Pérez Roque conspired not against the Revolution, but against the natural order of the dynasty. Two “young” faces that would be erased from the Cuban political landscape and whose fall led to the rise of others who were necessarily obedient, such as that of the current ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel.
In April 2018, after handing over the position of president of the Councils of State and Ministers, Raúl Castro recalled that Díaz-Canel had been “the only survivor” of the candidates for power.
With him “we did not make the mistake of accelerating the process,” said the Army general in clear reference to figures such as Lage and Pérez Roque and other young cadres who were once prepared by the messianic power to guarantee the succession.
After his fall, Lage disappeared from the public sphere and did not reappear until October 2021, when a message began to circulate on social networks. statement yours in support of the continuing regime.
In his message, for many a sort of political testament, Lage assured that he still believed in revolution and socialism.
“I got to know in depth the revolutionary, intellectual and human greatness of Fidel. Almost 20 of the 70 years of my life were with him, including the endless days of uncertainty, optimism and firmness of the ‘Special Period’. I felt like a friend and part of the family. My admiration and affection for Fidel cannot be modified,” said Lage, who pointed out that the Cuban socialist system is fairer and more humane, although he admitted the need for “profound changes, much more than in the last 20 years.”
Although many believed that Lage’s words left an open door for his return to power, his statements were nothing more than an attempt to back up the questioned legitimacy of the regime, which was then trying to quell the fury that the 11J protests had left and the campaign in favor of the Civic March for Change.
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