Havana Cuba. — Last Wednesday, the 14th, Cuba commemorated the alleged birth of Ernesto Guevara from Rosario (baptized by communist propaganda as “Heroic Guerrilla Fighter”). Also, although on a very secondary level, that of the Bronze Titan Antonio Maceo. The hypothetical coincidence of both dates served the Castro regime, for decades, to commemorate what they used to call the “Maceo-Che Ideological Day.”
And note that I have used the adjectives “supposed” and “hypothetical” not for free. It is the case that various people interested in the subject doubt that the famous Argentine was indeed born on June 14, 1928. They affirm that he saw the light of day on another date and that this information was altered in his registration in order not to reveal his bastardy: the true day of birth would have revealed that he was conceived out of wedlock.
In any case, the simultaneous commemoration of both events represents an arbitrariness. In this respect, the Antillean communists are similar to those who study the sky who group various celestial bodies into constellations, separated from each other by sidereal distances. And they do this only based on the closeness that they appear to have for those of us who observe them from this planet, which is, on a universal scale, truly insignificant.
In any constellation there can be, say, a star that seems very radiant to us just because of its proximity, but also a whole galaxy made up of millions or billions of celestial bodies. Seen from Earth, one and the other may seem equal in importance and brilliance, but the differences between the two can actually be vast.
In a similar way, Castro’s propaganda compared for decades a giant of the most genuine Cuban patriotism and military art, like Antonio Maceo, a pretentious foreigner who, in civil matters, stood out for helping to impose on the citizens of this Island a A dictatorial, foreign and dysfunctional regime, and in the military, reaped anthological defeats, such as those in the Congo and Bolivia.
Despite this abysmal difference between one character and the other, the communist agitators equated them during all that time. However, perhaps due to a remnant of modesty, or because of an express desire not to go against the grain of the healthy patriotic nationalism of the Cubans, they always placed the great Bronze Titan in the foreground (at least lip service). This was even reflected in the order of the elements of the binomial; I repeat: “Maceo-Che”.
But behold, the current governing team of the Island, despite claiming to be “continuity”, has forgotten those practices of the past. On Wednesday the “Tribute Gala to Ernesto Che Guevara on the 95th Anniversary of his birth” was held. He text of the various articles published by the Castro agitation media agree on this point. Some remember in a short paragraph, as a kind of poor relative, General Antonio; rebel youth don’t lie And we must thank him, because it is outrageous that both historical figures are mentioned, but Maceo is relegated to a distant second place!
The artists who participated in the gala-tribute, and the works they presented in it are prominent elements of the Guevara myth woven by Castroism. Among them stands out the Tune of Willsung by its creator, silvio rodriguez. The brilliant musician, so much discussed on the political level, did not skimp on adjectives: “Guevara the Beautiful”, “Legendary Che”, “Guevara the Human”. This said of the man who confessed to his own father that he liked to kill!
In the midst of these tendentious praises, some stanzas that in Castroite Cuba are subversive: “No intellectual should be an employee of official thought”… And let this be sung in Cuba! In the presence of the top staff of the regime and its heads of Culture! Oh Silvio! Always consistent even with your own inconsistencies!
The commemoration of the anniversary was reason enough for the journalist Camila Acosta, writing from this same Havana, to publish here in CubaNet a courageous chronicle, in which Guevara de la Serna is described as a “murderous sociopath.” He also remembers the hundreds of executions that were carried out under his command at the La Cabaña Fortress.
The colleague cites one of the phrases written in black and white by the character: “A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hatred” (Allá Silvio when, in the aforementioned tune, he dares to affirm: “To the good revolutionary is only moved by love”!). Acosta also cites the testimony of Father Bustos. According to the priest, “Guevara the Human” forced “the relatives who were going to collect the corpses of those shot to go through the famous wall stained with the fresh blood of the victims.”
To end this chronicle with a cartoon that characterizes this character so idolized by the international rojerío, I think it is appropriate to repeat an anecdote that I heard decades ago during a conversation held by two medium-high level communist leaders at the time when I met He worked as a legal advisor to a state agency.
The most curious thing is that the two interlocutors never uttered a word that was directed directly against Mr. Guevara or his conduct. Of course, this would have been very frowned upon in a conversation between “revolutionaries”! To make a direct critique of the deified Che in Cuba would have exposed its author to all sorts of unpleasant consequences!
Both limited themselves to narrating an anecdote about when Commander Pedro Miret, after assuming command of La Cabaña as Guevara’s immediate successor, was called upon to preside for the first time one of the firing squad sessions that were held there. Arriving at the execution site, he saw that the place was invaded by a veritable mob of onlookers.
Those subjects had gathered to “enjoy” the macabre spectacle. They didn’t just watch what was happening; They also directed various jokes at the unfortunate who were a few minutes from being uprooted from this world. Those who narrated the anecdote did not go into that detail, but it was evident, from the context, that this spectacle had been tolerated for years by the Cuban shooter from Rosario.
We already know that Miret was a consistent Castroite. But to his honor, it must be said that, upon contemplating that embarrassing show, he flew into a rage and ordered those spectators to leave the place immediately. “Only the members of the platoon and the doctor who will certify the deaths can be here! The others are leaving me right now!”
I hope this brief anecdote helps give readers (especially those who admire Che, if there is one) with an additional element to evaluate their adored communist boss.
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