HAVANA, Cuba – On the eve of the “ordering” they created the stores in MLC to supply those that sell in national currency (which never happened), and now this year, after declaring the “correction of distortions” failed, and trusting in that people have already forgotten the purpose of the first ones, the markets opened in dollars to fill the empty shelves of the poor things for whom the extinction process has probably also begun?
Because the truth is that this is yet another GAESA robbery, for which Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz has lent himself as the greatest enthusiast, perhaps in honor of the times when he was starting out (and training) as an investor at the headquarters. of the military businessmen, that mafia that cares little that the newest lie of “de-dollarizing by dollarizing” is so sloppy, at the end of the day the Cubans have believed and put up with worse things, since that time when Fidel Castro promised a revolution “green as palms” and it ended up being as red as they ordered it to be from Moscow.
But now, more or less, it can be said that the promise of “greening” reality is beginning to be fulfilled. In fact, the initiative was made public on the first day of 2025, in the midst of the regime’s celebrations for another year of dictatorship, and although the tone chosen by the continuators is not exactly that announced in January 1959 but rather that of the Federal Reserve , one could say that it is very similar to the one that our Creole magnates wear on their uniforms, because it is the color that predominates in those accounts in tax havens that do not know about “blockades” or inspections, taxes or lack of liquidity because they have known very well to keep them away from that Central Bank of Cuba that maybe at some point they will extinguish (just as they did with the indebted National Bank of Cuba) to evade claims and demands.
But the most likely thing is that time will not be enough for them and it will not be necessary to rename what they have converted, with so much “experiment”, with looting as the only “monetary policy” into a landfill of old and useless banknotes, which barely serves any purpose. for the simulation of paying retirees (and minutes later fleecing them).
Compared to the disaster that occurred in retail commerce – which still had corruption and looting (and not the “blockade”) as the main culprits – the Central Bank has ended up becoming a poor and undersupplied store in Cuban pesos, while the Banco Financiero Internacional and Havana International Bank (Havin Bank) are like the new 3rd dollar dollarized supermarket. and 70, although the one in London is much older and better supplied, more skillfully concealed, despite the fact that a good part of all those dollars that have left Cuba (or had it as their final destination) have passed through it, since 1970. They never return, at least not converted into benefits for the millions of men and women who will not be invited to the opening of the Torre K Hotel this January 15.
Everything that has happened in recent months, under the guise of a “rectification” process, including the offensive against the private sector that reached its climax with the so-called “anti-corruption exercise” (where no corrupt person’s head rolled of the big ones) indicates that the GAESA military is getting ready for a “controlled implosion”, and equally inevitable.
Time is running out and the desperation to fill their pockets before the countdown ends (around January 20, when Donald Trump returns to the White House) can be seen in each “initiative”, which is not for pleasure or purpose. coincidence they come accompanied by threats, by warnings against those who think that this “de-dollarizing by dollarizing” is the height of impudence. And if not, why accompany the news of the opening of a market (which is only the first), of the inauguration of a luxury hotel (which is only the most recent) with the ratification of the 15-year sentence to the young Mayelín Rodríguez, whose “crime” was transmitting popular protests on Facebook; the arrest of the artist Nando Obdc on charges of “terrorism”; and the opening of criminal proceedings against journalist Henry Constantinamong other excesses and bravado?
They want to loot in peace, without bothering or complaining, because at the end of the day, even if the dollars arrive in Cuba through “non-formal” means, even if they arrive from “enemy” lands, in the logic of the communists they still belong to them, as long as they have They were the genius creators of this “internal dynamic” of earning dollars without producing anything that could not work, first, if they had not simulated a total opening to the private sector and a few hours later tripped them up; and second, if they had not articulated, in complicity with Daniel Ortega, a mass exodus that, due to the bad intentions with which it was conceived, should be considered an invasion, as it will serve the dictatorship to strengthen itself with new generations of remittance issuers, for on the one hand, and to plant a considerable pro-Castro “influence group” in the heart of Miami, on the other.
Those who think that I am exaggerating with the above should stop to think, for example, about what that audience that attended the concert of the delivery man known as Bebeshito screamed or did not scream, about who made up that audience in Miami and if in reality that auditorium had filled if the main component had not arrived in the most recent “migratory wave”, where the common denominator is that “new man” who, forged in marches, acts of repudiation and snitching, prefers to shout “Suffer Otaola” than “Homeland and Life”, than “Freedom”. Also think about why the concert It was news of interest to the Ideological Department of the PCC, which soon announced it on NTV as a great event.
They seem to be disconnected elements but the sad reality is that to understand what is happening you have to see them together, as the regime has placed its hopes of saving itself not in those obedient, fearful, mute and opportunistic people who remain inside the Island – because in They can’t help anything, other than as recipients of remittances – but those obedient, fearful, mute and opportunistic ones who have left and who are willing to return (only on vacation) whenever misery In Cuba it allows them to pretend to be a privileged class, although only by virtue of the dollars they spend in 3rd class. and 70, and in the other markets, gas stations, hotels, dealerships, importers and bars of dollarized de-dollarization that will multiply as 2025 progresses, and with it the possibility of a “controlled implosion” with which the military would prevent this popular explosion which they fear.
