HAVANA, Cuba. – Sad luck for Carlos Aldana, who diedat 82 years old, in Havana, this November 27. Not even the newspaper Granmahe Television News Nor has any other official media outlet deigned to report the death of the man who came to be considered, during the 1980s and early 90s, the number three of the regime in his capacity as head of the Department. Ideology of the Communist Party.
And the fact is that Aldana was removed from office in October 1992 and the Castro regime does not forgive the thundered, no matter how well they have served them, even after they are dead.
The official explanation of Carlos Aldana’s thunder – as is the case with all official explanations of the Castro regime – was never clear. There was talk of mistakes that he made and that Aldana admitted, with Stalinist discipline, having made, and of a mess with a fake credit card that no one understood well. But everyone knows that the real reason for the thunder was his fascination with perestroikawhich set off Fidel Castro’s alarms.
Who would have suspected that Aldana would become a perestroiko reformist! He, who had been a faithful ideological guardian of Castroism. He more than demonstrated his inquisitorial zeal when, among other feats, in 1987 he carried out a purge in the School of Journalism in response to students who were impertinent in a meeting with Fidel Castro and another purge in the CUJAE to crush threats of dissidence in the faculty faculty. In 1991 he tried to dissolve the ICAIC, merging it with the ICRT and the Film Studies of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, very upset by the film. Alice in Wonderlandby Daniel Díaz Torres.
In truth, Aldana’s thunder was not the most severe. Perhaps because he was a protégé of Raúl Castro, who at some point was also dazzled by Gorbachev’s Perestroika, but reacted in time and backed down due to his brother’s displeasure. They say that the punishment was not stronger because Aldana, who was a socialite friend of the general Arnaldo Ochoaknew secrets related to Cause 1 of 1989 (some claim that he witnessed a meeting between Fidel Castro and Tony de la Guardia).
The mustachioed Aldana, who had the rank of colonel and was the ill-gotten nephew of another thunderer, Aníbal Escalante, was sent to run a rest center for mayimbes and pinchos in the cold heights of Topes de Collantes, where he spent years, with time, in addition to writing verses, to repent of their “mistakes”, but with the certainty that they would be very difficult to forgive.
