PUERTO PADRE, Cuba.- The news and photographs of the “event” went around the world. The famous actress Ana de Armas was “surprised” by the magazine Hello!kissing in Madrid with an official of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior, Manuel Anido Cuesta, personal escort, logbook amanuensis, legal advisor and stepson of the quasi-dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel; and I say “quasi-dictator”, because the master of the archipelago is General Raúl Castro and the real power is held by the high military command, although Díaz-Canel and the brotherhood of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) act as “superior leaders.”
I put quotes around the words “event” and “surprised” in relation to the affair, the flirtation between Ana de Armas and Manuel Anido, because knowing as I do of the operational control exercised by the intelligence, counterintelligence, military counterintelligence and criminal investigation directorates, not only over political adversaries and objectives of interest, but also over their own officers, it turns out that, With such ordinances, technically, it is impossible that, without the knowledge of his superiors, Anido Cuesta would have had personal relationships with a Hollywood actress or with any other person capable of influencing, observing or obtaining information through a military or a public official, whether in Cuba or abroad, even without those meetings becoming intimate.
There is a legal precedent that can lead the offender to a crime of insubordination, “Order XIII” of “Order I of the Commander in Chief”, which prohibits – and demands – rigorous requirements in the personal relationships of military personnel.
And the question arises, since Anido Cuesta knows state secrets: What would happen if, instead of being a pro-CastroAna de Armas was collaborating with the secret services of the United States or Spain to obtain information from the Cuban regime…?
Ana de Armas’ affair with Manuel Anido in Madrid, revealing itself to be a hidden love affair, is a decoy for the unwary. If this love relationship really occurs and is not an active measure by Havana in the construction of a legend or an operational combination to achieve strategic objectives in an intelligence, diplomatic, or major political or economic rapprochement operation, transcendenceit must have been Anido Cuesta himself who told Díaz-Canel about the affair, who, hastily, must have reported it to the Minister of the Interior, General Álvarez Casas, or to Raúl Castro himself, before the officers of the Operational or Control Technique Internal will write and send to high command a report classified as Secret P (personal).
No. There is nothing hidden in the Castro-communist nomenclature. Between them everything is known. Ex officio. Not by chance.
And Ana de Armas’ current courtship with him stepson-Díaz-Canel’s bodyguard is no exception. At the top of power in Havana there are no struggles to gain control of the powers of the State, including political power.
All or almost all the leaders are very interested in fish markets that in the near future – and sooner rather than later – will translate into economic advantages, because what today is owned by the state, cooperatives or usufructuaries, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, will pass into private hands, of millionaires, and in that bid, you have to be well placed.
It would not be strange then that the photograph of Manuel Anido, walking a luxury dog through Madrid, and the cover of the magazine Hello!be commercial announcements for tomorrow.
