Havana Cuba. – They say that sometimes losing is won and something like that has happened with the outcome of the World Baseball Classic in Miami, where the hopes of an eminently losing regime, eager to score any victory for its long record of losing streak, were dashed by an adversary against whom neither the slogans of “continuity” nor the husk.
On Sunday, in Miami, we witnessed one of the many paradoxes generated by our peculiar situation, and that is that when the baseball team loses, the defeated being an unquestionable representation of the dictatorship, it is the homeland, trampled on for more than half a century, the that it has triumphed, especially when we know how much the national sport has been politicized and distorted by those camajanes who have plunged it into ruin by virtue of personal ambitions and ideological extremism.
The homeland has won because the regime has been defeated, ridiculed, not so much because of that enormous beating but because of what was happening in the stands, and that neither the political police, nor the Ideological Department of the PCC nor the official press media could censor. So National Television had to broadcast the game as it happened. And, since we are rarely given the opportunity, millions of Cubans feel free to see and listen to those phrases of “Freedom” for a few hours. “Homeland and Life” and “Down with the dictatorship” for which dozens of young Cubans are still in prison or suffer exile.
On Sunday, just for those hours of freedom, for those images and shouts that translated our desires, regardless of the outcome of a sporting match, the true homeland, the one we carry in our hearts even when we live outside or inside, far or near. , the true country won, and the great defeat has been a regime that could not do anything so that our eyes would not see and our ears would not listen.
Just imagining how, prisoners of impotence, the pot-bellied bosses squirmed in front of the television every time a poster appeared or a cry for freedom was heard, many in Cuba savored that victory that, to be even more overwhelming, had to be crowned for a just defeat.
Because even though they wear the colors of our flag and usurp the name of a country as a team, the reality is that these players have agreed to become a political instrument of a regime that has not hesitated to distort and snatch for itself the concepts of homeland, nation and country, in order to thus meanly exclude from his membership those who oppose him and even those who do not obey him.
And that “obedient team”, that “team” that makes them play the political game above the sports game, is not at all the “Cuba” that many Cuban men and women want, who really want to see this land prosper, but above all, to see once again, definitively, those who have been loathing a homeland just because they have confused it with a bad government.
We will hear the offenses of the parrots of the regime against whom we enjoyed the outcome on Sunday. But when hundreds of thousands of compatriots rejoice over a beating in the sports field, it is not the virtue or nature of those people that must be doubted, but rather those of that government that has led them to that point where everything that smells The dictatorship will move them to rejection.
Now, ad nauseam, we are once again seeing the regime, as it has done for more than half a century, trying to turn “reversals into victory” with those speeches and “communiqués” so lacking in imagination and spontaneity, with those “political activities ” so ridiculous, but what happened on Sunday is undeniable. He was defeated so in the ground as in the stands, and that wonder, to top it off, we saw it on national television, without censorship.
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