MIAMI, United States. — Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, coordinator of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC), spoke this Friday at the II Regional Meeting of the Madrid Forumwhich takes place in Lima, Peru.
In his presentation, the Cuban activist emphasized the influence that the Castro dictatorship has exerted in Latin America, which “has the permanent mission of spreading its poison throughout the entire hemisphere.”
On why the regime continues in power six decades later, Gutiérrez-Boronat maintained that “it has been maintained and promoted by an international structure” set up by the international left, but also by the so-called “vegetarian right.”
For the leader of the ARC, Castroism is the main culprit of the “totalitarian populism of the 21st century”, which has spread throughout Latin America.
In denunciation of what he described as “the great lies of the Castro dictatorship”, Gutiérrez-Boronat dismantled the argument that the United States policy was the one that radicalized Fidel Castro’s Revolution on the island.
“Che Guevara himself said it, Fidel Castro, it was the weakness of the United States, and consequently that of Europe, which led to the establishment of the Cuban dictatorship in power.”
Likewise, the coordinator of the ARC expressed that the Cuban regime has tried to merge Castroism and Cuba into a single idea. In this sense, he made it clear that the dictatorship imposed on the Caribbean country has absolutely nothing to do with the culture or the idiosyncrasies of Cubans.
The Madrid Forum is an international alliance of leaders, entities and parties that defend Freedom, Democracy and the Rule of Law in the face of the advance of the extreme left. In this sense, as its own members have recognized, it works as a counterpart to the Sao Paulo Forum, a platform sponsored for several decades by the Cuban dictatorship and allied regimes.
