HAVANA.- Like orders to be done. Like scenes from a movie: passionate kiss in the street; Manuel,
walking the dog; Annaware that she should not look at the camera while he tells her
speaks from the perfect angle so that the magazine Hello! do what you have to do.
So that there is no doubt that he is who they say he is.
They are those of Ana de Armas and Manuel Anidoobviously planned photos and none
of them was taken by surprise. They knew what was going to happen once they were published and they didn’t
for pleasure the Dávalos They are in some scenes, and they have been for many years
the lawyers and executors of a mafia, the guys who know where they have hidden every
penny, every property, and now they are there, in the middle of the “scandal”, legitimizing a
change of “family” for when the last Don has gone to the afterlife, along with his brother
and to the son-in-law, the late Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja, former owner and lord of the
Cuban economy, which will no longer be able to inherit what was once promised to it.
If anyone should worry about these not at all casual images, it’s not us.
neither the readers nor the fans of Ana de Armas, but those who remain from a family
Castro who is living his last hours in power, and who is now aware of the
mistake of having ceded too much power to an upstart, of not having prepared a
heir with some talent for business and, above all, having thought that the
brute force The Crab (Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez), together with that of his uncle El Tuerto (Alejandro Castro), would be enough to protect his father.
Woe to those who think that everything was accidental, both the death of the leader of GAESA
like the photos of Hello!. That the lovebirds were surprised in Europe by a
carelessness and not because the “red-handed” scene actually responds to the script of those who wanted to send a loud and clear message of defeat to those who, in the same
bowels of power, they still doubted that they have control of the family, that they have gone
gaining ground. And what better seasoning for such a message than a relationship with a Hollywood actress who knows very well how to calculate the size of a fortune?
Those who know the mentality of the Castros, that is, the Sandros, the Tonys, even
that of El Cangrejo, and even that of the entrepreneur Vilmitathat of the related Mariela
with Mr. Titolo, related to other mafias in Europe and Africa, such as the Amorím,
from Portugal, and the Dos Santos, in Angola, know how much this can hurt them. They will find it unacceptable that an upstart like Manuel Anido, who is not even the son of the estate manager,
has managed to hook up with the Bond girl, with his many millions of fortune and having
could choose between Ben Afflec and the Tinder mogul, even between one of them.
None of the Castros, despite boasts and slips, ostentation and
bravado, he was able to conquer her. So they have read the message perfectly, and it has been more devastating when, in addition to the Hollywood star, those who appear in the images appear
They hold the key to the secrets (and who can decide who they entrust it to).
If we thought that internal struggles for power were only an issue between the new
and the old guard, between orthodox and reformists, between a few ministers
corrupt, now, after these images – very daring and risky for
who know well about such daring and risks—there is no doubt that the
confrontations are very fierce and bloody, and this play says more than
what a simple scandal of passion, a bad choice of sides, could say.
Although Miguel Díaz-Canel is using the stepson and Ana de Armas to manufacture a
glamorous image of his regime, at a time when the economic crisis and the
natural disasters do not give him any opportunity to shine; that the Hollywood perspective could work in his favor in some circles of opinion where this type
publicity stunt works, without a doubt, the main objective of the play is to send a
message to their internal enemies by appropriating languages and symbols (the Dávalos
are one of them) that they understand perfectly, as well as worrying about
their heads from now on.
By the way, in addition to the above, Anita and Manolito’s romance has been a
blessing for these days when the headlines in the independent media will not occupy
another matter other than this, less dangerous and transcendental than an electrical system
collapsed and a country dying of hunger. After all, we have a circus when we don’t
there is bread to eat.
