PUERTO FATHER, Cuba.- In Cuba, and in any place where a worthy Cuban is, we come to this third Sunday in June, Father’s Day, with families mourning the unexpected and violent death of their loved ones, with women and men sanctioned with iniquitous prison sentences for political and conscientious reasons, with the country in the darkand to say in the dark is not a metaphor, because from one end of the archipelago to the other, due to the mediocre lack of foresight of those who, without being elected, have set themselves up as rulers, Cuba is without electricity and without moral, feudatory light, linked to a party criminal politician for standing alone, supported by the perverse monopoly of a militaristic capitalism that has made the national economy succumb in an inflationary spiral that already makes it difficult even to buy flowers to take them to our deceased.
With the family broken and dispersed like never before in our history, so many are the parents separated from their children and grandchildren, we Cubans arrive civilly diminished on this Father’s Day, and who would say it!, after 22 years of the century XXI. With my father deceased, with my exiled children and with my grandchildren born outside of Cuba, although I could well be with them personally, I have nothing to celebrate; but since the task of a public servant is to lift spirits and encourage things to move and not ruminate misfortunes, on a dark Father’s Day there is nothing better than remembering the Father of the Nation, not to forget our miseries, but to redeem them in the conviction of not being orphans of thought, although civic weakness today weighs down our action.
Today we see how the Castro-communist dictatorship, which supposedly has as a legacy the martyrdom of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and that of all the founding fathers of the Cuban nation, condemns its political opponents for “disrespect”, and it seems a recent term, but it is customary in the legislation of autocrats.
Celebrating the birth of the Princess of Asturias at the Bayamo Philharmonic, the governor, Colonel Toribio Gómez Rojo, had Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Lucas del Castillo and José Fornaris imprisoned, in the same way that today the Castro-communist political police imprison opponents ; that time, as now, the patriots were first taken to Santiago de Cuba, at the disposal of the governor, General Joaquín del Manzano, who sent them to the San Luis barracks, where they remained detained for three days, and then were taken to Palma Soriano, where According to Fonaris himself, they stayed “forty days and nights”. The file was opened for “contempt” for having “improvised verses insulting to the decorum of the government.” Isn’t that what is happening right now in Cuba?
On August 4, 1868, meeting with Camagüeyan patriots in San Miguel de Rompe, Las Tunas, to analyze the details of the uprising on which there was no unanimous agreement, lawns He said: “Gentlemen… The hour is solemn and decisive. The power of Spain is outdated and eaten away. If it still seems strong and great to us, it is because we have been contemplating it on our knees for more than three centuries. Let’s get up!” And something similar is happening today, the power of the Castro-communist regime, as the Father of the Nation said referring to Spanish colonialism, “is outdated and eaten away.” If the communist dictatorship still seems strong and great to us, it is because while those who had the courage to rise up remain imprisoned, too many Cubans, who yearn for freedom, remain silent as accomplices of the dictatorship.
As a man of unquestionable personal worth, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes obtained the title of Father of the Nation when his son Oscar was captured by Spanish troops and he was asked to give up the fight in exchange for his son’s life, to which he He replied: “It makes me think that a worthy and honorable military man like Your Excellency can allow such revenge if I do not obey his will, but if I do so, Oscar is not my only son, all Cubans who die for our freedoms are. homelands”.
On April 11, 1869, in Guáimaro, in his speech upon being appointed President of the Republic in Arms, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes said: “Cubans, with your heroism I count to consummate independence, with your virtue, to consolidate the republic. Count on my abnegation”.
Céspedes had the sublime greatness of giving the life of his son Oscar and his life to the Cubans. But we Cubans, who on many occasions have given their heroism to consummate independence, as a nation have not been able to combine our virtues to consolidate the republic. On a dark day like today, Father’s Day, perhaps remembering the Father of the Nation will give us encouragement and his example will help us achieve a freedom that is already elusive.
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