San Juan Puerto Rico. — 120 years ago, the May 20, 1902the Republic of Cuba was established, raising the Cuban flag in El Morro de La Habana and other public buildings, assuming the presidency of the country Don Tomás Estrada Palma.
Although it is true that the new republic was born with imperfections and limitations due to the imposed Platt Amendment —which affected the field of national sovereignty—, it is also true that this was the starting point of a free country that, despite his ups and downs, he had great prosperity and his moments of freedom of his existence. The republic perfected its democratic system by eliminating said Amendment and promulgating a new Constitution in 1940, which was the pride of its time for its completeness in terms of guaranteeing the freedoms and rights of man. It was a democratic process only sullied by the dictatorships of Gerardo Machado and Fulgencio Batista and which was destroyed in 1959 by the totalitarian tyranny of Fidel Castro, who, betraying his country and his people, handed over national sovereignty to the Soviet Union by imposing false constitutions. pro-communists who, deep down, violate the human rights of their citizens, embedding a corrupt and despotic minority caste that enslaves and impoverishes citizens.
But in the midst of this tragedy, since the great betrayal and theft of the homeland by Castroism, the Cuban people have not stopped fighting for their freedom, democracy and respect for their human rights, seeking the total and absolute end of tyranny. in order to start building a new country.
Since 1959 the struggle of Cubans for freedom has not ceased. There are plenty of examples: the heroic guerrillas in the Escambray and in other areas of the country; the landing of the glorious Brigade 2506; then moving on to the peaceful struggle of the opponents after the call for “The Homeland belongs to Everyone”; the protests by the Ladies in White and other organizations inside and outside the Island; until reaching the most recent acts of rebellion of the people, such as the protests of July 11 and November 15, 2021, as well as those that continue to arise daily inside Cuba with support from exile.
The fight will not end until Cuba is free and the country is totally stripped of the evils of Castroism. It will be from that moment on that all the social and political tendencies of the country will have to begin a new and grandiose work of construction of a new country, sovereign and free, entrenched in a new democratic Constitution that establishes a new rule of law based on the principles of national sovereignty, peace, freedom, democracy, welfare and progress for all Cubans within the framework of an inclusive Cuba, framed in the thought of the Apostle José Martí: “With everyone and for the good of all”.
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