LAS TUNAS, Cuba. — A mass exodus marks the 120th anniversary of the Republic of Cuba, which is celebrated this May 20, the national date on which we will go to the sociological field and not to the historical details, which have already been collected in Cuba, May 20 and the republic “of the bunch”published by CubaNet on this same date last year.
I began by saying that the stampede of my countrymen is massive because Cubans are fleeing their homeland facing risks to their lives, getting rid of their homes and everything they own in the land of their birth, as if they never thought of returning to it, or confident that one day they will be able to rebuild their lives and return to their country as people and not as outcasts, as they left it.
Curiously, Cubans do not stay in Panama or Mexico, nor do they give up going to Canada; they go to the United States, to the land of “Uncle Sam”, to the “monster”, to the domains of “Yankee imperialism”, and I wonder what conclusions the communist leaders are drawing about this migratory corridor.
Let it be known: when I say what the leaders of the Communist Party will say, I do so because those who flee communism in Cuba are people born after January 1, 1959, when Castro-communism took power. Those who are leaving today were trained, educated and instructed politically and militarily, among many other doctrines taught from primary school and even in postgraduate studies, in the conception that the United States government is the main enemy of the “Cuban revolution ” because American democracy is false, its capitalist system abusive and cruel and its society alienated by a “junk culture” and absurd consumerism.
rereading The Republic To write this article, I found an axiom that I want to share with readers because it explains the failure of the indoctrination Cubans have been subjected to by the Castro-communist regime for more than 60 years. In the famous text, Plato says: “Because a free man cannot be taught by him as if he were a slave. For if it is true that bodily labors do not diminish the strength of the body, it is true that any knowledge acquired by force does not persevere in the soul.
Little or nothing must be added to what Plato said, only that it fits perfectly in the Cuban nation, and by nation we understand the already expressed concept of Noah Webster: “a popular body that inhabits the same country and is constituted under the same government” .
But this May 20 the Cuban nation turns 120 and it is as if that time had not passed, it is as if we still remain under the command of a captain general in Spanish colonialism or a military governor of the United States government. It is even worse, because dictatorships like the Castro-Communist one, in constant chaotic improvisation due to imperatives of survival, lack the administrative order that colonial military governors or intervenors usually accompany.
Cubans leave Cuba. Faced with this true, irrefutable fact, the Castro-communists say: “they have always left”, “they leave for economic reasons”, “don’t politicize emigration”. Good. Let’s admit all those affirmations of yours and particularly one: they have always gone. It is worth asking: How many left, when?
How many left? How many are leaving?
According to figures from the time and from the United States Embassy in Havana, 3,555 Cubans left for that country in 1946. From 1947 to 1953 the annual figures were 3,339; 3,402; 3,307; 3,068; 3,347; 3,577; and 4,055. The record number was that of 1954, with 7,995.
In nine years, from 1946 to 1954, a total of 35,645 Cubans emigrated to the United States.
Now, compare that figure with those of the current stampedewhich is more than a mere migratory event without political connotations in those who leave, but of negative national results for those who left, as is the case of Cubans who, since the fall of last year and until now, are leaving Cuba, further diminishing its human resources, which are those of an aging nation, thus decapitalizing the socioeconomic future of the country.
The Cubans who left in the same year, 1959, the Castro-communists called them “Batistas”, those who left during the exodus from Camarioca they vilified as “worms”, and those who left through Mariel they branded as “scum”…? What would they call those who are fleeing now and then return with pockets full of dollars? Will airports and neighborhoods welcome you?
Poor Cuba! Beautiful land to love those who, instead of giving her breasts, turned their backs on her. Poor Cubans! So brave to flee and so cowardly to stay. Poor tyrants! Pretending to make a country their Olympus, they ended up turning it into a desert. Poor “lot of people”, as Aristotle said, posing as a nation! Thus they squandered 120 years, those of Cuba.
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