HAVANA, Cuban. — Even the most clueless Cubans have begun to wonder what will happen in the coming months with so many events taking place, some in favor and others against the Cuban regime. While he refuses to pay a debt with the improbable justification that it was negotiated behind Fidel Castro’s back, Western Union resumes its operations on the Island and The New York Times has published a note promoting the Island as a tourist destination, praising its beaches, its tobacco plantations, the joy? of its people and even the protests, which from now on will also form part of the issues that tourists should not miss the opportunity to address as it is an epic, unique and perhaps unrepeatable event.
The publication of the New York newspaper has been so satisfactory that the Ministry of the Interior replied to it, because the collusion of the North American left with the repressive body that has filled the prisons with political prisoners and exiled several Cubans in recent years is great and shameful. making use of the US airlines themselves.
It is obvious that what matters is money, mainly that which can be absorbed by the regime. Until now, it has not been explained why Western Union will not deliver the remittances in cash and in dollars, so that each beneficiary can handle his money as he pleases; it only offers the option of depositing them in accounts anchored to Cuban banks, all controlled by the dictatorship. The new terms of operation of the company mainly favor Castroism, which will be able to have a greater volume of foreign currency just when it is facing at least two lawsuits for not paying debts contracted more than twenty years ago.
While they move that money around as they see fit, Cubans must settle for buying the little that is in the stores at MLC, which is increasingly expensive, or selling the freely convertible currency on the black market. Accumulating it is not recommended, taking into account that the regime could end it overnight, as it did with the CUC, and exchange it for national currency according to the rate that occurs to it, causing enormous losses to citizens.
As hundreds of Cubans with no assets or sponsors seek to reach US shores by raft at the risk of being turned back, and thousands prepare to invest in a sponsor as they once prepared to pay for the voyage from Nicaragua, the White House does everything possible to solve the problem for the dictatorship, under the pretext of helping the people.
On the side here, however, there are no economic improvements or goodwill in high places. There is no provision for an amnesty that benefits at least the prisoners of 11J that they did not commit “acts of vandalism”, nor is there any hopeful growth in the private sector outside of those “strategic” businesses that are on good terms with the leadership.
The exodus as a mechanism of pressure on Washington worked once again because a radical president was not in office. Otherwise the story would have been different. A signature would have been enough to decree the total closure of the southern border, leaving López Obrador with a tremendous conflict that would have forced him to close his own border with Guatemala, and so on, in a domino effect that would have forced Nicaragua to eliminate, or at least temporarily suspend that lucrative visa exemption for Cubans, which contributed so many millions of dollars to the corrupt regimes of Daniel Ortega and Miguel Díaz-Canel.
A single signature would have been enough for 11J to be reissued every day in Cuba. But everything was very well calculated and the White House was overwhelmed. Almost 300,000 Cubans have arrived in the United States, and thousands of others scattered around the world, so that now they come to talk about parole and that The New York Times insist on presenting Cuba as the paradise that Democrats and Republicans know very well it is not.
Maybe Cuba is on the way to annexation. Perhaps it is the ripe fruit, which now rolls into the hands of the neighbor due to the iniquitous who took away all possibility of being truly independent and sovereign.
It is difficult to find an explanation for everything that is happening between the easing of Washington and the concealment of information by the regime regarding the litigation that is being processed before a London court. The Cuban side lies shamelessly while hiding the identity of the alleged culprits who would have put the country’s sovereignty at risk by negotiating with “vulture funds” without authorization from a government that has always boasted of knowing everything.
You have to be an idiot to believe that some officials managed to outwit the greedy eye of Castroism, just as you have to be an idiot to believe that the mysterious company Orbit SA has left the military out of the multimillion-dollar business to which they were accustomed. It would be more sensible to accept that the United States is providing the greatest amount of dollars possible to the Cuban regime so that it can pay off some debts and breathe.
This being the case, all that remains is to remove Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism so that this thaw, which has been processed without noise, continues its course through the front door.
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