The so-called “war of all the people” is just another dirty trick with which the regime intends to save its life or at least buy time to flee or hide.
HAVANA, Cuba. – A question that Miguel Díaz-Canel should ask himself, apparently confident that his luck would be better than that of Nicolás Maduro in a situation similar to that of January 3is about whether the same men and women who have not shed a drop of sweat in the fields to produce food (or in the streets to collect the accumulated garbage) would offer some of their blood to defend him and the other paunchy people just because he asks them to, with the same outdated speech with which he has ordered his diminished flock of lazy people and freeloaders to do what they will never do.
It would be enough to observe the reluctance on the faces of those who listen to it in meetings, rallies, assemblies, of those who attend like zombies the parade of “Defense Day” – in order to keep their salary in full -, to know that they are so willing to die on the battlefield, to offer themselves as cannon fodder, as well as to spontaneously go to work from Monday to Saturday, or to shout slogans in a march from which at least they know they will emerge alive, to continue pretending that they work and are “loyal”, just as the regime pretends to believe them as long as they lend themselves to the simulation.
The communists are very aware that today the relationships of loyalties within their forces have ended in a hollow simulation. That beyond the old slogans and the circus itself, there is no “secret weapon” or anything substantial with which to confront anyone, nor any “defensive” strategy other than using useful fools as cannon fodder.
That of those few who remain – as covered in medals as in ailments and disappointments – and not their own, is the blood they think of when they say “to the last drop”; just as they refer to the sweat of others, to the blackout that they do not suffer, to the hunger that they do not suffer when they talk about the need for more sacrifice and more “creative resistance”.
The Chavistas trusted their entire defense, their “military invulnerability,” in that rhetoric learned from Fidel Castro, and we already saw what happened. The Cuban communists also lived until yesterday trusting in boasting from a distance, added to a political police and an army that, as we have already seen in Venezuela and in Russia in the war against Ukraine, ended up becoming an exportable item, even when their usefulness as mercenaries does not reside so much in their military skills as in how cheap and disposable they are, whether in a security cordon or in a squad of those that the bosses use as another layer of their bulletproof vest.
For those who still do not understand it in its true hypocritical, deceptive essence, the so-called “war of all the people” is in reality neither a war nor an action of resistance, it is just another dirty trick with which the regime intends to save their lives or at least buy time to flee or hide, using as a parapet the young people recruited by force, as well as the naive, stupid and crazy people who believe the story that dying for them is a noble and heroic act, even when there is no absolutely nothing noble and heroic, and yes too much selfishness and perversity, in what they have done for you and me.
What should we save from what they call “revolution”? The hotels that we don’t enjoy, the mansions where we don’t live and that we can’t even get close to, the luxury car and other privileges of the military caste? The blackouts, hunger, dollarization without dollars and other “distortions” that are neither corrected nor ended? For whom and why should they be saved? For those who shout slogans in the stands and talk about our blood and our country as if they belonged to them, or for those who are surely already negotiating a way out and, at the same time, thinking about how to use us as cannon fodder if the business fails them, just as they did secretly with Obama?
We have more important and more urgent questions to ask ourselves, although we know well how rhetorical they are. Maybe Miguel Díaz-Canel knows the answer to his most essential question, now that he can measure the true risk he runs of trusting too much in those around him, and in those who say they are faithful to him “until death” (but, until whose death?).
It is very clear that other minor “sacrifices” and “tasks”, which do not involve a mortal risk but merely the inconvenience of getting their hands just a little muddy or missing out on sleeping in the morning, are very difficult for them to undertake. Because Castroism in its essence is a magnet and reservoir of mediocrity, apathy, opportunism and corruption, and incapable and impossible of being attractive to those who would be willing to make personal sacrifice, to sweat and bleed from dawn to dusk in pursuit of prosperity, well-being, but it is the latter who most want the dictatorship to end today, no matter what.
