MIAMI, United States. – The Military Conscientious Objectors movement issued a statement this week in which he describes the current situation in Cuba as a “new October crisis”, comparable to the Missile Crisis of 1962. According to the MOC, what the Government describes as an “electricity supply crisis” is, in In reality, the total collapse of the country’s energy system, the result of years of negligence and lack of investment.
“When they say they are repairing the electricity supply, they are actually trying to restore the regime of prolonged blackouts that were already being suffered. But now even that is not possible,” says the statement, in which the regime is accused of not having modernized the thermoelectric plants, which would require an investment of 10 billion dollars to restore the energy system.
The military Conscientious Objectors describe the alarming panorama of the Island, where the lack of food, electricity and water is combined with a collapsed health system, characterized by a shortage of trained personnel and medicines. “Unhealthiness and epidemics increase, as well as the lack of doctors, nurses and medicines. Deaths are multiplying due to this situation and the origin of the deaths is falsified, the statistics of which are recorded in cemeteries,” the statement denounces.
Likewise, it emphasizes the political and social repression exercised by the Cuban regime, which they describe as a “new mafia and oligarchic State.” The Military Conscientious Objectors assure that “the prolongation of power of this parasitic class that denies basic services and freedoms to the population is causing as many deaths as a civil war.” However, they make it clear that they do not seek violence: “We do not desire violence nor do we call for it, it is the new mafia and oligarchic State that unleashes it every day.”
On the other hand, the Military Conscientious Objectors urged the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) to be loyal to the Cuban people and not to the oligarchy. “The FAR should not shoot against the civilian population, but rather protect it from the repression of paramilitary groups (Rapid Action Brigades)“, they say. Furthermore, they remember that rebellion is a current constitutional right, in reference to Article 4 of the Cuban Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The group also calls for the formation of a civil-military committee to channel the demands of the popular protests. This committee should include “a group of recognized citizens” to lead the transition to a provisional government and organize free elections. “It is legitimate, necessary and urgent to establish a civil-military committee with a group of citizens of recognized prestige that synthesizes the main current demands of the popular protests,” the statement says.
The Military Conscientious Objectors conclude by stating that “liberation from the totalitarian regime will allow the country to develop with the most modern technologies and thus finally incorporate Cuban society into the new information era of the 21st century.” “Surviving increasingly miserable and oppressed is not living, but dying every day. Let’s take back the nation. Homeland and Life!”, concludes the statement.
