Havana Cuba. – It was expected. Impeachment is the formula that the Cuban communists have used to pretend that they are doing something. It could even be said that it is the only one, and those of us who know that it was already taking time to do it, we are somewhat concerned about the delay.
It was used by Fidel Castro on hundreds of occasions and precisely one of the most “notorious” was that of October 2014 when, after a series of blackouts due to the collapse of several thermoelectric plants, eliminated Marcos Portal as Minister of Basic Industryafter accusing him of “strong tendencies towards self-sufficiency and the underestimation of criteria”.
Days ago, in full live broadcast on national television, “Marquitos” had confronted the boss of bosses when he publicly tried to blame him for all the blackouts.
The “boconería” would pay dearly, regardless of whether he was a member of the family clan. She had to have endured the sticks so that the official note published in Granma was softer but perhaps sensing that his head was going to roll yes or yes, he launched into “public suicide” to everyone’s astonishment.
I think we have never seen an official respond so strongly to Fidel Castro before the cameras. Not even in 1999 when Roberto Robaina was surprisingly arrested and dismissed the day before announcing —in open defiance of his “Commander in Chief”—, a tour of several Latin American countries, including Panama, where he would meet with Mireya Moscoso, before this assumed the presidency in December.
There were and will be defenestrations because someone guilty must be thrown into the pack. Dismissals that only seek to put a human name on a disability that belongs to no one but the system itself.
Cuban regime dismisses the Minister of Energy and Mines, Liván Arronte Cruz
Raúl Castro also used the express dismissal formula, although for other purposes. In fact, he began his term by kicking every mortal who had directly served his brother out of the way, except for the current prime minister, Manuel Marrero, the only surviving minister of that 2009 mass lynching that took favorite Carlos Lage out of the game.
But those are other stories. Just as dark. The one of the moment is that, as a deja vuthe play of dismissals is repeated but with another actor who has opted to exit the forum with his head down, despite knowing that no substitute will solve the matter of blackouts, nor will the accidents cease, fires and explosions in a country where all the basic infrastructure is obsolete.
It was not even worth the Minister of Energy and Mines to singe his skin a little during the fire at the Supertanker Base in Matanzas. His days were numbered, perhaps from the moment the explosion at the Saratoga hotel, about to reopen, was linked to a tanker truck that supplied the building’s kitchens with gas. An “accident” that due to the delay in the publication of the official report, begins to smell of something much more stinky than liquefied gas.
I imagine that the last days in office will have been the worst in Liván Arronte’s life, with such a long record of fatalities, unsolved mysteries and “desynchronizations” of the national electrical system, but I also believe that there is no surprise in what It just happened, that I was expecting it, because I knew about this outcome from the first day that I assumed that “hot potato” that is my ministry —like any other on this Island—, just as every “defenestrated” person in Cuba knows that his or her role It was not “directing” but lend his head until the moment it is necessary to roll in the guillotine.
Here in this poorly written work called “Cuban socialism” no one is innocent.
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