Havana/It is hard to believe that, after decades of repression, lack of freedoms and a galloping economic crisis, there are still those who continue to see in Cuba a “socialist paradise.” However, this August 13, when they were completed 99 years of the birth of Fidel Castrocongratulations to the island did not arrive only from allied regimes, but also from related sectors worldwide. That “ideological fanaticism” was precisely what criticized the Under Secretary of the USA Christopher Landau this Wednesday in X. Beyond the “myths,” he wrote, “any fair and honest person who approaches these issues should recognize that Cuba has been kidnapped by a gang of thug.”
In the antipodes of the displays of tributes and celebrations that Havana has orchestrated by Castro’s birthday, Landau did not limit himself to pointing out the cult of personality around the dictator, but he proposed to dismantle revolutionary mythology. The short text, in which Castro calls a “ruthless thug”, was diffused For the Washington Embassy on the island, which will surely carry an official response from Havana, which at the moment is immersed in criticizing the sanctions of the White House to officials from several countries involved in the hiring of MISSIONS Doctors
“Any person in the face of the land under 67, including me, has not known a single day in which Cuba has not been under the dictatorial regime of the Communist Party. However, the myths that the communist leaders of Cuba are ‘the good’ are persists and that the Cuban people are happy,” began their Landau message before giving way to an enumeration of four great beliefs sustained on the system Cuban
The first revolves around the idea that there is a high quality of life in Cuba, especially when talking about health and education
The first revolves around the idea that in Cuba there is a high quality of life, especially when talking about health and education. Citing data that reflect the mass migration of recent years, the critical state of the electrical system or the average salary of the island, Landau argues that the standard of living is not only “lousy”, but also “continues to get worse” while Cubans are “fleeing in mass” of the country.
“Cuba, which was once the world’s largest sugar exporter, now imports more sugar than it produces, and the recent harvest was The worst since the nineteenth century. Access to basic medical foods and supplies (aspirins, bandages) for the average Cuban is, in the best case, precarious, ”he said, as he contrasted the data with the large amounts of money that the country receives for each medical contingent that dispatches in the world.“ The Cuban regime and its apologists love to speak of Cuban doctors deployed in other countries. But these doctors are not doing charity (…) and it is the regime itself who He keeps payments”
Cuban rulers are not “progressive leaders,” Landau continues, who says that “myth and reality have rarely been so remote.” According to Alaga, both Castro and his followers consolidated their “absolute and perpetual” power through violent methods and, for decades, “they have given refuge to fugitives from US justice.”
The former American ambassador also reserved some words for Ernesto Che Guevara, who came to boast openly before the United Nations that the “execution balls were a government tool to eradicate the ‘worms’.” The situation that Landau remembers occurred during an organization of the organization in 1964 in which the Argentine came to say, in the name of Cuba: “We have shot, shoot and continue shooting as long as necessary.”
Landau also did not overlook the repression that the regime unleashed after the massive protests of July 11, 2021. At that time, he recalled, more than 1,000 people were arrested for crimes manufactured, such as “sedition”, and much of them is still in prison.
The third great myth of revolutionary rhetoric, explains Landau, is that “the leaders of the Cuban dictatorship care about the welfare of the people, not their own”
The third great myth of revolutionary rhetoric, explains Landau, is that “the leaders of the Cuban dictatorship care about the well -being of the people, not their own.” Nothing is further from reality, he argues. “The Castro family and other members of the regime (especially military and intelligence leaders) live in luxury, with access to food, homes, cars and tourist destinations, and have accumulated billions of dollars in foreign bank accounts while the people desperately seek food and electricity.”
To verify it, he specifies, it is enough to look for the social networks profiles of Fidel Castro’s grandson, Sandro, who has declared himself influencer And he shows in his profiles of the “luxurious lifestyle of her family, with designer clothes and an leisure life.”
To finish, it highlights, if any of these myths reveals itself as false, Havana immediately resorts to blaming the American embargo on its problems. “But there is no such ‘blockade’: Cuba is free to trade with other countries and, in fact, it receives economic lifeguards from abroad, such as oil from Venezuela and Mexico, and tourists from Canada, Europe and other places. US law explicitly allows explicitly allowing the Food and medicine export To Cuba, and the humanitarian situation there would be much worse without these exports, ”reasons the politician.
If the island was ever “blocked” by the US, it adds, it was during the missile crisis in 1962, a situation of great tension between Washington and Moscow that lasted a short time. “After more than sixty years, it is pathetic that the regime continues to blame Cuban economic collapse to the US instead of assuming its own grotesque bad economic management and political repression.”
“The Cuban people deserve a brilliant future, and the regime cannot even offer a decent present. I aspire to step on a free and prosperous toss, and I have confidence that I will do it,” Landau finished, aware that ideological fanaticisms will continue to believe the myths of Castroism. However, he added, the faithful of the revolution “are also free to believe in unicorns.”
