SLP, Mexico.- Yoked like a team of oxen or mules to a long-lived dictatorship, Cuba, as a nation, understands itself as a people or more properly as a bunch of scandalously partying people, laughing at their human miseries more than material ones, riveted in palaver speech that strangles her and in the servile applause, reaches another December 10day when free people of the world celebrate their rights, Human Rights. But in Cuba we do not have facts won with rights to celebrate.
A mountaineer, muleteer, who became an illustrious general, strategist in our independence wars and lieutenant of the Liberation Army, is the author of a phrase best remembered for saying that freedom is not asked for, but is achieved with the edge of the machete, rather than by the central idea. of that apothegm that can well be considered constituent of the entire Right and, in particular, of all legal defense, whether from the bench of the most competent lawyer, or even in the words of any person asserting their citizen, that is, human, powers.
“Begging for rights is typical of cowards incapable of exercise them“said Antonio Maceo Grajales, alluding to the fact that Cubans, without waiting for concessions or external aid, should achieve freedom with “our efforts.”
I bring those words from Antonio Maceo this December 10Human Rights Day, because it is well known: although it prides itself on respecting them, the Castro-communist regime criminalizes, segregates, limits, obstructs, distorts and violates the exercise of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
There, to prove it, to say of the crime against humanity that has lasted for more than 65 years, are the prisons, the prisoners, the exiled, the executed, the wandering diaspora around the world of those who already number millions of displaced people; some, for political reasons; others, drained by themselves for reasons of economic hardship, and hundreds, thousands, transferred from the prisons to ports and airports as if they were throwing weapons launched against the neighbor, the United States, which one day they say they hate and another day seek refuge in the “monster.”
Thus, Castrocommunism made Cuba – a land of immigrants where Spaniards, Americans, Poles, French, English, Canadians and Colombians came to put down roots – an emigrant, pariah nation, spitting out Cubans everywhere and, with very honorable exceptions, cowardly, begging for rights incapable of exercising .
Yes. Cuba is today on the verge of a crisis human. But for many years he has suffered a moral crisis. The lack of medicines, drinking water, communal services, electricity, fuel, transportation, housing, healthy food or their inaccessibility for large and vulnerable population groups and, in short, the lack of health and public goods and services, common in a civilized country or one in the process of prosperity and democratization, make Cuba a country on the verge of collapse from a socioeconomic point of view.
But from a civic, citizen point of view, Cuba is a collapsed country humanly, morally. And let’s be clear: this lack of civility suits the regime and harms Cubans, who demand food or electricity, remain silent, due to lack of freedom.
Remember that due to lack of food the cattle moo and kick inside the corral, but when the cowboy arrives with a cart of fodder, the herd returns to peace. I know I’m harsh with my analogies. But I do not know how to express myself in any other way when faced with claimants of rights incapable of exercising. Excuse me.
