PUERTO PADRE, Cuba.- The death of Fidel Castrowhich occurred on November 25, 2016, marked, eight years ago, the beginning of the slow end of the regime that we interchangeably call Castroism or Castrocommunism.
Many inside and outside Cuba thought that the end of the leader meant the end of the dictatorship. But it has not been like that. And it is useful to ask: Why death of a narcissistic leader like Fidel Castro did not lead to the collapse of autocracy, as usually happens in right-wing dictatorial regimes…?
Let’s be frank. Whether we like it or not, until the day of their decomposition, like every human being that is born, develops, declines and dies, they tend to be people with a totalitarian vocation and regardless of the epicurean of their tastes or their paganism, of full stoic resistance, proof of the harshest adversities, and thus achieve discipline, respect, idolatry or fear from their followers and their adversaries, regardless of the death of human beings, friends or enemies. This has been the case of the brothers Fidel and Raúl Castro, dictators of Cuba, legally and technically speaking, since June 30, 1960.
Understand what I say from a historical point of view. Since July 26, 1953, when he was defeated in the assault on the Moncada Barracks, after a chain of setbacks, Fidel Castro did not achieve a political, military or legal victory – except for being amnestied – until January 17, 1957. , in La Plata, Sierra Maestra, after a very tough shootout to defeat the brave defense of the soldiers who, isolated, defended that mountain barracks.
Fidel Castro had boarded the Granma yacht on November 24, 1956, in Tuxpan, Mexico, to depart in the early hours of the 25th. Despite the expedition being decimated upon disembarking, he would arrive in Cuba and go through a process that would lead him to Havana two years later, making and breaking pacts, until he put all the powers of the State and the rights of the Cuban nation in his guerrilla jacket in ambush, hidden, in what most intricate part of the mountain, where he signed in 1957, and then undid, the so-called “Manifesto to the People of Cuba.”
I said that legally dictatorship Castroism has its starting point on June 30, 1960 and not January 1, 1959, because on this last date, the revolution, which was not carried out by Castroism alone but by the majority of the people of Cuba, poor and rich, won to a dictatorship, which makes insurrection lawful resistance.
Illicit, illegal, fraudulent, was to sign and affirm that 18 months after the victorythe provisional Government would call general elections, which should have occurred on June 30, 1960, once the provisional period had been fulfilled. But those are elections that we Cubans are still waiting for, even those of us who were born on the same day that the Granma boat loaded its cache of weapons and rebels, when even before Fidel Castro arrived in Cuba there were already Cubans fighting and dying for the freedom of their homeland.
Yes. Castro-communism that began to die when Fidel Castro expired, just eight years ago, will end up disappearing with the death of Raúl Castro, a death that, biologically, is already about to occur sooner rather than later. But that does not mean that the disappearance of Castroism means the end of totalitarianism in Cuba. A totalitarian State is maintained thanks to soldiers, police, prosecutors, judges, prisons and jailers, political commissars, propagandists, notaries and, above all, a hungry, needy, snitching population, and, particularly, trained from the earliest childhood in the “art” of applauding what they do not feel.
And all of them, young and old, through the work and thanks of a less human and more sheepish, servile character, continue to be “Cuban revolutionaries” even though they have gone to live in the United States.
That, the architecture of submission, and not that of the groups of power plants that today, dilapidated, do not produce light due to overexploitation and lack of repairs; That is the true “energy revolution” of Fidel Castro: to turn off himself and leave the totalitarian dictatorship on.
