Havana Cuba. – Assuming that what is stated by the lawyers of the defendants in the london trialthat is, that everything was the fault of a corrupt official, so there are plenty of reasons to rule, beyond a court, that Cuba is a failed state, while the lack of control points towards total chaos when any guy is capable of to negotiate the country’s debt without alarm bells going off (and apparently there aren’t any, or they keep them disconnected all the time because otherwise the noise would be constant).
Let’s look at what kind of surreal country Cuba has become, while the police created an ephemeral department of “Fight against Coleros” (LCC) to appear to “put order” where there never was (an attempt that added more corruption to the problem of queues) but, at the same time, they escape these great “shoveling” of which we only hear when it is already impossible for them to wash the dirty laundry at home.
They even mobilize the special troops of the Armed Forces to “fight” against the poor lady who resells the hash or her turn in a row, even against the old man who sells jabitas hidden in a doorway but, on the other hand, no supervisory and supervisory element In the “system”, despite “political loyalties” and even “cadre politics”, it is capable of detecting these “anomalies” that are already becoming the norm.
And it is that the matter of corruption did not stop with the dismantling of that department “MC” (Convertible Currency) that, it has been said, used the offices of the Ministry of the Interior as vaults to store the millions that drug trafficking and offshore, of which many are still active. But neither was he born with that murky history that, just as due to an external complaint and not due to an internal investigation, ended in trials, jail and executions.
But nothing happens! From those years to these, if there were no worse cases, it is not because there were not, but because we do not listen to them, and one proof would be all those embezzlements in state companies (and the reluctance of the Government to do without such a nucleus of corruption) but also it would be the fact that today we are presented with this “corrupt official” in a foreign debt case that did not just happen yesterday or the day before but dates back to the times when the Soviet Union.
A debt that, due to the way it was abandoned, literally shelved, there was never any intention to settle, as has happened with the others and that, in the most “fortunate” cases, have entered into that circle of forgiveness and renegotiation in perpetuity. that, we’ll see soon with the Russians, they could end up generating more corruption as nothing is free in this world, much less when a guy like him gets involved with his “advice”. Boris Titov.
It does not matter what they say now about the protocol established by Cuban laws for the management of foreign debt or if it is all a theatrical show to evade responsibilities with creditors, the truth is that the regime has not minded making use of an argument that plunges them further into ridicule, especially since this joins an extensive list of precedents where it is implied that, if there were a “government style” of the communists, this would be insane.
What if not, years ago, the “Battle of Ideas” for which a kind of ministry was even created that soon after became the epicenter of the worst acts of corruption? And what has happened repeatedly with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and its many associated entities? Cuba as a whole in the last 60 years has been an endless story of endless “exploitation”.
Even when they have wanted to “correct” they have done so in an “experimental” way, because that is how they wanted to present the “monetary order” policies that, ultimately, came to worsen the situation by making the economic-financial context even more complex. (and with many more cracks for corruption to nest well).
But its “brilliant” authors today are up there —not so high, although they are still raised above our heads of ordinary people— in other matters to cause chaos, and I have no doubt that with full permission to sell at auction prices everything they can to be sold, just like yesterday, without giving an account to any of us, they sold for scrap both the ships of the merchant and fishing fleets, as well as the machinery of the sugar mills. And nothing happens!
It is about total madness insofar as, it seems, anyone, in any official ministry or institution, as long as they are a “trustworthy type”, can be made, put on and dispose of the many debts of this country and negotiate them just as they could right now. my neighbor selling her turn at the chicken tail.
This is how they have arrived in London, with a story that does not say anything good about how matters are handled here, so much so, say those who have been able to attend the hearings, that the judge cannot hide her astonishment when hearing such arguments.
I imagine then what his expression would be if, in addition to suspecting chaos or lies, someone told him a little more about what happens in our insular asylum, things like that, after 60 years, unable to produce food, we have invented a catibía ice cream and we even make the event a festival. Nothing, things that happen in the country of Bobo de la Yuca.
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