Trump would be saying that his administration is advocating for General Raúl Castro’s regime to return the civil, economic, political and social rights violated by all Cubans.
Puerto Padre. _President Donald Trump said this sunday that “he is talking to Cuba, and they will know very soon”; and Trump says that one of the groups he wants to protect are “the people who came from Cuba” because “they were forced to leave or abandoned under pressure, and who at this moment are great citizens of the United States.”
Clearer, not even clear water. No?
Washington would be asking Havana to restitute the natural rights, that is, of Cuban citizens, of Cuban-Americans, that is, to return to those people “forced to leave or abandoned under pressure”, all the rights that they, Cuban citizens by birth, were deprived of, and, consequently, also their children, who are Cuban citizens with full rights, even if they were born outside the national territory.
Said more simply. Trump would be saying that his administration is advocating that the general’s regime Raul Castro return the civil, economic, political and social rights violated to all Cubans who had to leave Cuba, “forced to leave or abandoned under pressure”, that is, as a result of the policies of the totalitarian Castro-communist regime and who are currently “citizens of the United States.”
And Trump’s words are not empty, no! They have legal support in Cuban constitutional law. Regarding citizenship, article 12 of the Constitution of 1940 says: “They are Cubans by birth:
b) Those born in foreign territory to a Cuban father or mother, simply because those live in Cuba.
- Those who, having been born outside the national territory of the Republic of a father or mother natural to Cuba who had lost this nationality, claim Cuban citizenship in the manner and subject to the conditions established by Law.” And this is the case, for example – and only one example – of the children of the prisoners of Brigade 2506, who, along with the criminal sanction, were declared “stateless.”
Concerning political rights, article 10 of the Constitution itself states: “The citizen has the right:
- To reside in their homeland without being subject to discrimination or extortion, regardless of their race, class, opinions or religious beliefs.
- To vote as provided by law in elections and referendums called in the Republic.
- To perform public functions and positions.”
Regarding the legal security of private property, article 24 of the 1940 Constitution confirms: “The confiscation of property is prohibited. No one may be deprived of their property except by competent authority and for a justified cause of public utility or social interest and always after payment of the corresponding cash compensation, established judicially. Failure to comply with these requirements will determine the right of the expropriated person to be protected by the courts of justice, and, where appropriate, reinstated in his property. The certainty of “The cause of public utility or social interest and the need for expropriation will be decided by the courts of justice in the event of a challenge.”
It is idle to say that millions of Cubans and their children who today reside not only in the United States but in many other places in the world, were deprived of those rights that benefit them today and always, by birth, by nature. And, listen to me, to those who say, “no, so-and-so is the son of Cuban parents, yes, but they left before the “revolution,” I have to tell you something.
If it were necessary to set a date that defines that state of necessity, legally speaking, but that constituted civic and human plight of those people, “forced to leave or abandoned under pressure”, in their country and also by governments of neighboring nations, according to President Trump, that date, personally, I, summon it, yes, I demand it as a Cuban citizen and as a criminalist due to the antecedents of the crime, which date back to before January 1, 1959, the beginning of the regime Castro-communist, but from the early morning of March 10, 1952, the day of the coup d’état Fulgencio Batista and other conspirators, who, with this criminal act, would break a democratic order, still perfectible, but which would give way to a bloody civil war, and in the end to a totalitarian regime that had just completed 67 years of absolute, all-embracing power: the communist dictatorship of the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro.
TRUE. The waves of migration caused by communism in Cuba from 1959 to the present, cannot in any way be compared with the Cuban migration that occurred until 1958. Even so, in 1952, the year of the coup d’état on March 10, and according to figures from the time of the United States Embassy in Havana, only 3,577 Cubans received resident visas, while by 1954, that number had increased. that doubled and the Cubans who received resident visas in the United States were 7,995.
And these figures in many cases, in many people, their departure from Cuba occurred “forced to leave”, according to Trump’s words, but in the context of what Marxists call “revolutionary situation”, conceptualized when those below (the masses) can no longer take it and those above (the powers of the State) cannot sustain themselves, a situation that would occur with the Batista dictatorship and very bitterly between November 1956, (uprising in Santiago de Cuba) and December 1958, (Batista’s flight) when not only Castroites but civil society as a whole, including old and young, women and men, students, intellectuals and businessmen, many of the wealthy, were linked directly or indirectly, contributing capital to the fight against the dictatorship, among them, Spanish and American citizens, relatives of mine residing in Cuba, whose children and grandchildren of Cuban mothers are today part of the diaspora.
It is a historical fact, if at its convenience the Fulgencio Batista regime fractured the 1940 Constitution in 1952, Fidel Castro would do so in the same way in 1959; and if Batista called it, “Constitutional Statutes”, the Castros would label it “Fundamental Law”, twisting it to simulate legality, liquidate private property, due process and putting the powers of the State, administrative, legislative and judicial, in the fist of Fidel Castro.
Still, legitimatelythe Constitution of 1940 It is only one and should be called the only lawful law that exists – any other legislation is spurious because it was born from a dictatorship – to govern the transition from totalitarianism to democracy in Cuba, a process in which no Cuban should be missing, including my grandchildren who are American citizens like so many others, children of Cuban-Americans whom one day they called “worms”, “scum” or “counterrevolutionary”, as they call me, because Cuba belongs to all of us who have it in the blood, and not from a handful, those who bleed it.
