The D Frente platform has attacked the growing closeness of the Cuban regime with Russia, as a result of the visit to Havana, this Wednesday, of General Nikolai PatrushevSecretary of the Security Council of his country.
“The ostentatious public exhibition, in all the country’s news media, of Putrachev is striking,” they say in a statement released this friday. “His actions are still an offense against the dignity of a people who have fought and sacrificed so much for their resistance and independence against all forms of imperialism.”
The Russian military met with the Cuban Interior Minister, General Lazaro Alberto Alvarez Casasin addition to President Miguel Díaz-Canel and his predecessor, Raúl Castro.
In this regard, D Frente considers that it is witnessing “a slow-motion bankruptcy of everything that the Cuban nation project implies and means.” “While the Cuban State and Government opt to openly support a typical expansion war, more destructive than strategic,” they continue referring to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, who just turned one year old“the Cuban people choose to flee the country in a direction contrary to the spurious alliances of the government.”
This is, for the opposition platform, “an increasingly clear sign” of the regime’s inability “to represent the genuine interests and values of the country and the nation.”
“We Cubans do not support wars of aggression, selective assassinations, theft and trafficking of children, the rape of women, or powerful mercenary corporations that destroy entire towns like the besieged city of Bakmuth”
“Cubans do not support wars of aggression, selective assassinations, theft and trafficking of children, the rape of women, or powerful mercenary corporations that destroy entire towns like the one in the besieged city of Bakmuth,” says D Frente. “Neither do crimes against humanity or against the cultural heritage of a nation. We firmly believe in the Charter of the United Nations, which is supposed to defend peace and nations without an imperialist past from the territorial appetites of the usual imperialisms” .
And they warn the government: “By supporting Russia in its genocide against Ukraine, it is violating both international law and its own Constitution.”
Patrushev arrived on the Island from Venezuela, where he was received by Nicolás Maduro, just over a month after Díaz-Canel expressed the desire to bring the relationship between Cuba and Russia “at a higher level”.
Days later, Russian media revealed that one of the agreements between both parties was the creation of a “Center for Economic Transformation”with the objective of preparing “economic transformations in Cuba based on the development of private companies”.
The Russian presence is already a fact, for example, in charge of one of the largest sugar mills on the Island, the so-called colossus of Jatibonicoin Sancti Spiritus.
On the other hand, the fear of some exile organizations that this means opening up the market “in the Russian way” is also based on the flourishing of new “private” businesses, created in a strange alliance with the state sector.
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