The “Gil affair” is another play. Let us not be distracted by asking for public trials or transparency where there have never been any.
HAVANA, Cuba – If Hurricane Melissa has been for the regime the “perfect storm” to absorb donations and “re-boost” with it the “repressive economy”, the case of Alejandro Gil Fernández, revived at the exact moment when our attentions are on the disaster that eastern Cuba is experiencingtends to become not only a distraction, a smokescreen but something worse, that fiction that aims to leave us with the idea that corruption in Cuba is a specific issue and not a systemic problem, generated with full knowledge and usefulness of it.
Corruption as a systemic problem but, in addition, the deep internal division of a dictatorship, if not the failed “cadre policy” that in just the last five years has resulted in the dismissal, public or hidden, of dozens of ministers, deputy prime ministers, senior military officers and other senior officials under very serious accusations that, however, do not cause the immediate resignation of an entire “continuist” cabinet that today is revealed, due to the nature of the crimes charged, as the main culprit of the “errors” committed.
The resignations of Miguel Díaz-Canel, his Prime Minister, the President of the National Assembly and even the Minister of the Interior should have already been in Raúl Castro’s bureau for months, because we are talking about espionage, money laundering, among other crimes that should have been investigated by the corresponding bodies of the MININT, and revealed long before an express dismissal, which was not a consequence of the honesty of the PCC but of the pressures exerted by the constant revelations in the media. foreign and independent press, and by complaints on social networks that already pointed to, at least, cases of nepotism and influence peddling.
There was no ongoing investigation prior to those allegations. It is a resounding certainty. Many were even refuted as “fake news” from “haters” and “enemies”, hence Alejandro Gil’s farewell was surprising, overnight, after his “revolutionary” participation in a Torch March alongside Raúl Castro himself, and he even left with praise from the “handman” for the “services provided” to the dictatorship.
So, in good fight, it should cause the resignation of the Army General himselfand even that of the main leaders of the Communist Party, while a cluster of crimes such as those now charged to the former Minister of Economy – chosen by them with full knowledge of his history of corruption, in the foreign companies where he worked, and of his wife Gina González García, related due to her responsibility in the economic department with the case of the Río Zaza company, of the Chilean Max Marambio – are not serious due to the damage to the economy or because “they erode confidence in the revolution” but because they reveal the network of corruption, mediocrity and hypocrisy that sustains the dictatorship, and that is enough for citizens to demand the respect they deserve.
A trial, whether behind closed doors or public, whether televised live or delayed, will neither prevent the circus that the dictatorship intends to create over the case, nor will it reveal guilt in the power leadership that gave shelter to misdeeds that Alejandro Gil did not commit alone or without a license to commit them. Or that he did not commit but that now he will have to assume as the act of sacrifice that corresponds to him as service personnel of the Castro family, just as the Robaina, the Pérez Roque, the Lage and other stupid birds of the same servile fauna did at the time that one day flew much higher than him.
Now the henchmen, with the methods learned in the Soviet and Russian schools, will be in charge these days not only of “convincing” the former minister to throw all the poop on himself, just as they did in Case No. 1 of 1989, but also of getting his daughter Laura María through the hoop, who only now discovers that the stone does not hurt until it is in her own shoe. It is also possible that, having already assumed its roles in this new theater of entertainment, the circus remains as it is. Him playing his role as a victim or a confessed corrupt person, and the little daughter who has just landed in Castrolandia pretending that there is a Constitution that protects her and a government that listens to her.
He “affair Gil” is another play. Let’s not get distracted nor asking for public trials nor transparency where there never has been, nor will there ever be, but to create more theater. Alejandro Gil is an accomplice and part of the dictatorship, he is not a victim but rather service personnel who yesterday had to pretend to be a minister and today, as if from the notebook, he has had the turn of the day.
Let’s put our energies into denouncing the abandonments that exist and that will come by the thousands once the cyclone stops making the news. And if there is something we must demand, and shout, it is the resignation of all communists, as well as asking Gil and his daughter not to cry so much and, like Randy Alonso, to have confidence, a lot of confidence.
