HARRISONBURG, United States.- A recent video circulating on the networks shows the moment in which two former political prisoners and Cuban patriots rebuke someone whountil very recently, openly defended the dictatorship in those same spaces, identifying himself as “100% Fidel.”
The event did not occur in Miami polarized by political passions but in northern Syracuse. It is known of the confronted, in addition to the pseudonym that he adopted to appear on the networks, that his real name may be Dangel Valdés Guerra or Dangel Valdés Sosa.
Anyone who has seen the debate that Dangel held about two years ago with Eliécer Ávila will surely agree with me that “absolute Fidel” is one of those young Cubans with the pretense of communicators that proliferate so much today on the networks and who barely open their mouths demonstrate his ignorance of Cuban and universal history and his lack of culture, the latter appreciable in his way of expressing himself.
The arguments that said young man used in the aforementioned debate were so pedestrian that I did not have enough patience to finish watching it. By the way, a few days ago Eliécer referred to the clash that gave rise to this article and treated the aforementioned in an extremely condescending manner, as if he downplayed the fact that an individual like him is in this country, which I consider a mistake of his part.
I perfectly understand the reaction of the two Cubans who confronted the defender of the man who now sleeps forever inside a stone in the middle of the street.
Whoever has not been imprisoned or has suffered the humiliations, surveillance and abuses of the dictatorship may perhaps be condescending.
But those who have been hung upside down, with their arms and feet tied for hours while being beaten, spat on or ill-treated by other men, those who have been sentenced to prison for several years without having committed any crime, those who have been humiliated by the communists you can stop feeling indignant every time you learn that a Yunior Smith or a Maray Suárez resides in the United States or in any other democratic country. That is simply the reaction of the worthy.
Among those worthy are Jorge Ramírez Calderón and Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, who told “100% Fidel”, face to face, what they feel knowing that he, an ardent defender of those who daily violate human rights in Cuba and in the world , is living comfortably in the United States of America, the country that he has denigrated so much in his live broadcasts published on the networks, many of which he has erased trying to clean up his past.
I do not have the pleasure of knowing Jorge Ramírez Calderón, but I do know Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, who spent more than ten years in prison for his opposition activities in Guantánamo.
Juan Carlos is one of the pioneers of the peaceful opposition struggle in Guantánamo along with Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina. I always admired his position, which in that decade of the nineties seemed reckless to me. He simply was, like so many other memorable Cubans, an advance.
I remember that we met at the La Milagrosa temple, on Paseo street on the corner of Cuartel, in Guantánamo, and we exchanged opinions. It was common then for Juan Carlos to be arrested in the middle of the street, arbitrarily locked up for several days, beaten and stripped of his money and belongings to be later abandoned in his underwear in any uninhabited place in the province. This is how the henchmen that this Fidelito defends act!
I met again with Juan Carlos in the Guantánamo provincial prison, when we were both serving our first prison. Then he was one more among the dozens of sanctioned in the so-called “Black Spring”.
Because of my Christian conviction, I believe that the reconstruction of our country unquestionably passes through a necessary reconciliation that will lead to subsequent forgiveness. But that does not exclude giving up justice because there can be no forgiveness without justice.
It should not go to the extreme of continuing to ignore or consider an enemy someone who has given obvious and proven honest signs of having repented of his support for the dictatorship, but there is a long way to go from there to supporting the opportunists who are now fleeing the bilge. . Allowing them to settle and organize here would be a naivete of incalculable proportions.
In Cuba there cannot be a clean slate because that would be a mockery of the memory of the thousands of people shot, political prisoners and those sentenced to exile. It cannot fall in the farce of the arm behind the back, the drink and the phrase “everything is fine, that’s why we are Cubans.”
That is why I defend the idea that the Cuban exile community should unite more and create defense mechanisms against the incredible communist penetration that can be seen here and in other democratic countries where the dictatorship is repositioning its ideological agents. If they created the CDRs, the Cuban diaspora can create the CDDs, “Committees for the Defense of Democracy.” I’m sure there are plenty of volunteers to do it.
The possibility of reconciliation exists without falling into the traps that are set for us. To those who talk so much about the alleged hatred of those from here, when in reality it is about crying out for justice, I ask them if they have ever thought about what a mother, a wife, a son or a daughter can feel when they verify that one of the chairs at the family table are empty due to the cruelty of the regime they defend.
And in this event that I am dealing with, for me nothing was more illustrative of the duplicity and the unhealthy nature of the little guy confronted by the patriots than his reaction, consisting of calling the police, demonstrating that he is a blatant proof of the “new man” of the dictatorship, uneducated, hypocritical and cowardly.
And Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta and Jorge Ramírez Calderón showed that they are still advanced and patriotic.
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