HAVANA, Cuba. – The Castro regime is a machine for manufacturing crimes. The regulations, resolutions, decrees, laws and whatever corrections the rulers invent to discipline a people fallen into moral ignorance due to the scarcityshortages, lack of transportation and medicines, state interference in people’s lives and even in what is “legal” to express, instead of putting an end to crime, encourage theft, corruption and dishonesty.
The deterioration of moral values has reached such a critical level that there are no government plans or new coercive or repressive measures that will end the debacle that is devastating the country in all social strata and institutional spheres.
Only a radical change in politics and the economy could avoid the designation of a failed state that so irritates the leadership.
The call is of no use “Crime prevention and confrontation exercise” that takes place throughout the country until this Saturday, no matter how much the Cuban ruler, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, in the meeting where he announced the “exercise”, bet on its success because it took place between two historical dates – the landing of the yacht Granma and the fall in combat of Lieutenant General Antonio Maceo – which, according to the ruler, “raise the country’s patriotism, and which are also dates of combat.”
Apparently, Díaz-Canel forgot that the patriotism of Cubans wanders, suitcase in hand, between Miami, Barcelona and Madrid, and shows his legendary machete from Djibouti to Istanbul, passing through the Dominican Republic.
As for the combats, they do not have specific dates, as they take place daily in the bread queue, at bus stops, in the guardroom of hospital centers, as well as in warehouses, funeral homes, and points of sale of liquefied gas. , processing offices and embassies.
According to the head of state, “popular participation and control in these actions strengthen unity in the confrontation with manifestations of corruption, crime, and illegalities, social indiscipline, antisocial attitudes or antisocial behavior.” It is as if these despicable acts and behaviors were committed by aliens or foreigners and not by corrupt officials and a large number of inhabitants of a needy, oppressed and alienated people.
Likewise, Díaz-Canel added that the exercise “also allows us to confront tax evasion, the inadequate relationships and distortions that may exist between the state sector and the non-state sector, everything that affects citizen tranquility, and against abusive prices and speculative”, as if these fraudulent relationships were made by the little ones in a day care center and the old people in a nursing home.
Not to mention “the noose in the hanged man’s house”, the ruler did not even remotely refer to the blackouts, inflation, shortages and hunger that, together with the lack of freedoms, are the fundamental causes of the citizen unrest that stirs to the country.
If Díaz-Canel’s memory works with a chip of continuity of “past glories”, how can we ignore the results of those actions and exercises that took place in the recent past, carried out by militants of the Communist Party, members of the Ministry of the Interior ( MININT) and the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and “young promises of the Revolution and socialism” summoned before by Fidel Castro and then by his successors with similar goals and identical levels of failure?
What we experienced in Cuba last week was nothing more than the execution of another political feint, a “new” ideological smokescreen to hide the disasters of Castro-communist continuity, and, with the regime on the brink of the precipice, prolong the waiting period. .
Does the ruler not remember the 28,000 social workers that, baptized as “doctors of the soul” by Fidel Castro, the then “maximum leader” summoned in October 2005 to remove the tumor of corruption that had metastasized into crimes, diversion of resources, nepotism and other endemic diseases of socialism, without being able to prevent them from being infected with the same virus and ending up corrupting?
Where are they, what have they done, in what country do they reside today, those hundreds of Party members, soldiers, police, tourist store administrators and other elements selected for “their sense of loyalty and commitment to the Revolution and the socialism”, which integrated those “Rapid Response Brigades” to fight against collectors, resellers and hoarders of products, formed in workplaces, parks and squares, under the sun of the Homeland, the waving of the lone star flag and the notes of the National Anthem?
The difference between those Cubans who went for wool and came out sheared and those who today are overflowing with commitment is null. None. Or, rather, more of the same: misery, rootlessness, and other similarities in the shortcomings that, instead of making them better, make them more devious, slippery and with greater resources for crime.
That is why there is no doubt that this exercise will be a simple photocopy of the previous ones; In journalistic terms, a rehash.
