HAVANA._Precisely one of the darkest days, when More than half of the circuits in Cuba were in blackoutCuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel occurred to say before the FAO that the Island has a “strengthened electrical infrastructure.”
A lie that was not alone in that speech which he read in one go, without any expression in his face or voice—trying not to give himself away as a liar—but it came accompanied by many others about the availability of human resources and advances in technological innovation that, if you were to believe them, anyone would imagine that Cuba is a kind of Silicon Valley where companies must urgently move.
He said all of this last thing in the midst of the worst mass exodus that Cuba has suffered in more than half a century of dictatorship – causing the number of inhabitants to fall to much less than 10 million, with emigrants estimated at nearly 1.7 million among the years 2021 and 2023—and with one of the most alarming population aging rates in Latin America, very close to exceeding 20 percent, without taking into account other economic and political factors that have turned the Island into one of the most inhospitable places in the world. planet for foreign investments, even though in the past it was one of the most attractive.
With lies, hunting for the naive, he has come out Miguel Diaz-Canel not so much because he seeks to do solid, lasting business – he has not even had them with his unconditional allies – but because he knows that there is always some pocket to be plundered in these forums, especially among nostalgics and left-wing fanatics, among right-wing opportunists and adventurers without side or brains that, having once wanted to be like the Argentine Guevara, will end up being like the Chilean Max Marambio.
Although it could be that, not having anything good to say about himself, the lord has invented that wonderland that is very far from the primitive village it is now, except for those chiefs who are going on a march against Israel and in favor of Hezbollah – so that there is no doubt about whether or not they sponsor terrorism – wearing very expensive sneakers, imported from the USA, the kind that serve to confirm the theory of “doctor” Díaz-Canel for whom the “importing mentality” is the one that “covered the horizons of Cubans.”
But, knowing the communists as only those who know about deceptions, scams and unfulfilled promises, about paripé and inflated balloons to appear pretty on the news, have come to know them, it is very likely that this flurry of lies had the same purpose. than the others of the past, and those of the present, and of all those that are to come, while lies are the backbone of Castroism.
They have always lied, in all times, good and bad, and if the neo-Castroism of these days of continuity is anything like that Castroism that died shortly after the death of its creator, it is precisely the lie, starting with the one that promised a “palm green revolution” and ended up being as red as the Soviets demanded it be, in exchange for Russian oil and meat.
Small lies, by the ton, which were followed by other enormous anthology—and pathology—lies, such as those about draining the Zapata Swamp and the lower reaches of the Cauto River for agricultural production, in a speech on March 16, 1959; or that of producing 60 million eggs per month, in another from January 2, 1965.
By the 70s and 80s, we would have more meat production than Argentina; more oranges than Florida; more and better coffee than Colombia; more rice and fish than China. 100,000 homes would be built annually, 30 million liters of milk would be produced daily, and we would have one doctor for every 120 families.
dengue It would be eradicated (and this was announced in March 2002), the dollar would never have a place in the Cuban economy, tourism would replace sugar production, and so in the end we were left without this one or that one. With those “green” ones and without pesos.
There would be so much fuel and development that farmers would work the land in air-conditioned tractors, and by 2006, having become an “energy model for the world,” we would have plenty of electricity to export.
So we have returned to the point from which we started in what tried to be an “energy revolution” but in reality, with so much junk bought on credit from the Chinese, was a looting operation.
In short, if the lie is eliminated, the dictatorship collapses within a few seconds. And Díaz-Canel knows it. That is why, like his predecessors, he invests the resources he does not have in ideological propaganda and information control, but not in strengthening the infrastructure of basic services or in producing food. After all, he has already discovered that by opening Nicaragua as an escape valve, selling chicken and rice at sky-high prices, putting a few in jail, blackouts and hunger will not produce another July 11.
