HAVANA, Cuba.- In recent days, President Miguel Díaz-Canel insisted again that there is democracy in Cuba. He stressed this to the detriment of the United States, whose democracy he considers defective, which it is, but not so much so that it falls into the mouths of dictators, and much less if it is a matter of fuelling pejorative comparisons. There is no perfect democracy, but there are rights and laws that enforce them. That is more or less how things are in the whole world, with the exception of countries like North Korea, Cuba, Iran and some other regrettable examples.
Even though Cuban “democracy” is supposedly superior to that of the United States, it has been Joe Biden, and not Miguel Díaz-Canel, who has given up continuing in the presidential race after recognizing, for the good of his country and his party, that he does not have the capacity to do so. He did not say it exactly like that, but in recent months the whole world has been able to witness his blunders and blunders at both domestic and international events.
The Democratic Party first made this clear to him in a subtle way and then, when the son of Delaware refused to accept the obvious, withdrew its support, because that is what happens in democracies. Persuasion or pressure as appropriate. The important thing is to avoid the nation sinking into a quagmire of political voluntarism and the absolute discredit of one of the traditional parties.
If in times of Fidel Castro If there had been something like that, Cuba would never have reached the deplorable state it is in today. Moreover, if Díaz-Canel had an ounce of shame, he would already be resigning to pave the way for a constituent assembly that would clean up all the strata of the political life of this country. And I say this now because on the eve of that bloody and “inflated” date that is July 26, Raúl Castro’s lackey has once again spoken of the Revolution of the humble, of the dignified and inclusive prosperity that awaits us, sooner rather than later, in some corner of the future, and of the commitment to continuity; words that go against the reality of a country that has seen emigrateaccording to official figures, to more than one million natives in two years.
In the perfect democracy of Cuba, the same regime under which the monetary order, the reordering of the ordering, Russification 2.0, economic macro-stabilisation and now the resizing of the economy, he continues to lead the country as if everything he has touched in the last five years has turned to gold.
In this enviable democracy, moreover, any citizen critical of Díaz-Canel’s management is in danger of going to prison and any crowding is a reason to bring out the special troops, as they did during the protests in March and also this weekend, when the Conga de los Hoyos took place under the scorching sun of Santiago de Cuba and the people filled the streets with a revelry that someone feared could turn into something more serious, dangerous and, who knows, definitive.
They then brought out the executioners in black, who were dealt so many blows on July 11, 2021 (11J). They let them be seen, just in case, that people are very nervous between the lack of food, the heat and the blackouts, even though there is a willingness to roll over behind the conga line and the old lobotomized group shouts at the top of their lungs that “it’s always the 26th.”
After four years of an administration that some economists consider acceptable, Biden has put the well-being of his country before his own stubbornness and has gotten out of the car to leave the post to Kamala Harris. Díaz-Canel, after five years of going from average to bad and worse, is still there, improvising nonsense about a people swept away by the exodus, deprivation, disease, death without population replacement, drugs and disenchantment.
Don’t be in the Cuban Communist Party excited to be a little like Biden; however, they fill their mouths talking about democracy and the future, contradicting today what they said yesterday, dismantling the only market that works and removing the former comptroller —an accomplice, prevaricator and traitor to the country— for another who will be exactly the same, but young enough so that the mental traps of old age do not make her say on camera that the business of GAESA are beyond their jurisdiction.
Biden decides to go home while Raúl Castro, mummified, from his supposed retirement, gives orders to Díaz-Canel to leave everything as it is and to instill fear, a lot of fear.
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