PUERTO PADRE, Cuba.- Addressing a human crisis with unpredictable consequencesCuba is suffering from an economic crisis with inflation spiralling to this day unstoppable. This emergency is noticeable not only in the monetary collapse, but also in the serious social fractures of political origin.
This situation constitutes a dangerous situation aggravated by the lackincreased or insufficient prices for food, medicine, drinking water, medical services, electricity generation, lack of fuel, actions for the elimination of urban waste, which, by accumulation, become widespread hosts of pests throughout the country, multiplying from one phase to another from insects to rodents due to the absence of application of pesticides, with the consequent risks of proliferation of transmitters of diseases that, even if not fatal in origin, in progression, by necessity, become serious or lethal in a starving population.
Faced with this adverse situation already foreseeable as early as 2019, the main leaders of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), “only” according to the Constitution, with Miguel Diaz-Canel at the front, They downplayed the crisis as if it were a “temporary” situation, as we warned in the article “From the General’s four points to the current situation of Díaz-Canel”published on this site in September 2019, in which we stated: “Taintless there, talkative here, untimely there, bringing geometric examples, that of the hypotenuse and the sum of the legs to the aggravated crisis that Cubans are now experiencing, Díaz-Canel seeks to closely manage what he calls the current situation.”
And the PCC’s “strategy”?
The “strategists” of the PCC, projecting “food sovereignty”, They drafted a law, made speeches, made field trips, visited farmers and cooperatives, held meetings and assemblies, but they did not comply with what was essential: allocating funding –when they still had money– to the production of food from agricultural, fruit-forestry origin, and foreseeing the crisis to come, prioritizing perennial plantations, pastures and forage crops, resistant to feeding cattle, sheep and goats, which can feed and thrive on good grass, without expensive imported feed as poultry and pig production requires. But they did not do it.
And how no money was put on the landToday we have no meat, milk, cheese, butter or ice cream; no plantains for food or fruit, no guavas, no papayas, no timber trees interspersed in those fields that should have been used to provide “a glass of milk,” as General Raúl Castro said in 2008, but are still marabú, impenetrable thickets; and, needless to say…!, we also have no corn, which is the basic grain, number one in the formulation of poultry and pig feed, just as we have no rice or beans. Or yes, of course… there is!
Of all those products There are in Cuba, they were produced by those who had the money and courage to risk it by investing capital in agricultural production, but as we are in the whirlwind of an inflationary spiral, if the price of crops is inflated, so will be the price of harvests. The products of the countryside are expensive, as are those of the city, out of reach of the humble people that the PCC claims to protect.
The failures
And this one about food production is just one example of the failures of the CCPone of the many that hurt, because it hurts the stomach of Cubans, of those who suffer from hunger in Cuba, but above all, more than the failure in food production, health and public sanitation, more than the failure of its public policies and the fiasco of the construction of the “socialist society” in Cuba, the greatest failure for the PCC is the dissent of its own militants, some members of the Central Committee, which is the highest leadership body of the communists between congresses.
And remember that in Cuba, the word “dissident” It is synonymous with “counterrevolutionary” and “worm.” But no. These “dissidents” of the PCC are not counterrevolutionaries. They are utilitarian, economic “revolutionaries,” that is, profiteers. Today they live in the United States. But they continue to be as economic communists, that is, hypocrites, as those I know were in Cuba, at least.
The PCC claims to be the “highest political force leading” all Cubans, yes, “of society and the State,” and some of its militants headed departments or sections in the Central Committee, or were first secretaries in provinces, municipalities, committees or mere nuclei in farms, cooperatives, industries, businesses, hospitals, military units, police units or jails and prisons. Therefore, criminally speaking, they are direct authors and not accomplices of the human crisis already approaching in Cuba.
After these “revolutionaries” or economic communists have cursed, vilified and spat upon “Yankee imperialism,” they now flee to Miami or, if they are deeply marked by their past, they look for any city in the United States to escape to, while those who stay in Cuba with their wallets bulging – and we would have to see how, whether through bribery or other crimes – then throwing away their red card, or using it as a letter of marque, become merchants or businessmen, using properties expropriated from their legitimate owners. That is the root of the failure of communist ideology in Cuba and of the PCC: Hypocrisy translated as a crime.
