HAVANA, Cuba. – For many it is a harbinger of more misfortunes; For others, a simple coincidence, but the reality is that the Cuban communists chose nothing more and nothing less than Friday the 13th for the last session of the IX Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the PCC.
Perhaps because it is the one that “hits them the most”, after so many natural disasters, several total blackouts and plenty of economic failures accumulated since the VIII Plenary Session held in July 2024, they chose that date with irony or with a perverse sense of humor, or because there is no better day in the year than the last day of bad luck in which the oldest recommend not Get married, not go to sea and stay with your family.
But, even if we take shelter, whether in Cuba or far from it, “embarkation” is an inevitable condition for Cubans. It is not something that will come as a consequence of the most recent coven of the “continuists” but as a self-inflicted curse that we have been enduring for decades because, even if it is deep down, most of us carry with us that “sleeping communist” that was implanted in us in the DNA with each congress, each meeting, each assembly, each march and each “we will be like Che” that we shout when asked or when we felt like it because, in short, if even the least enthusiastic ended the love letters with a “revolutionarily.”
The good textbook communist of the “Ñico López” (the “school of cadres” of the PCC), of the “Camilitos” or of the “base committee” of the university, which we export to Miami within ourselves, under the skin , and that also leads us to project a chapter of After the trail in a store in Miami, to long in full Hialeah the Lada car that a military father or “internationalist” grandfather had, or to be shocked and make drama on social networks by discovering with horror that in the United States to eat, dress, buy a house and a car, to have what the neighbor, it is obligatory to work, while the laws and the economic dynamics themselves are very harsh with “invention” and “fight”, two synonyms of “theft”, “scam”, “embezzlement”, “fraud” and “corruption”. ” that although the regime claims to condemn them, in reality it promotes and renames them under a new concept of “creative resistance”.
They have repeated it a million times, each time they insist on not wanting to hear complaints, claims and complaints but rather “solutions”, and it is like the “I don’t know how you will do it but invent it” that the gang leader says to the bully when the first and subsequent attempts go wrong, when he is aware that the assigned mission is impossible, that completing it will be a botched job if not a complete failure, but the boss needs to get rid of a problem and has neither the guts nor the way. nor cunning to do it himself.
The regime does not want to listen to complaints or complaints in a strategy of deafness in which it wants us to forget that its own speech is a mass of justifications and whining against “blockades” and “enemies”; just as he himself forgets that the people who complain and cry on the streets demand immediate solutions, that is, that the same people who devised the concept of “creative resistance” apply it now, but above all, explain it, because just as they release it (dollarizing the economy, building empty hotels, celebrating birthday in a bar, dating in Madrid and shopping at the Corte Inglésraising prices and freezing salaries, affecting the basic basket and abandoning health services) sounds like a euphemism for “every man for himself.”
Since they do not want to listen to the complainers and crybabies, not even to the new comptroller general who for the umpteenth time discovers once again that lack of control, theft and corruption are the common denominator of state companies and institutions, they have invented themselves to conclude the year another self-congratulatory meeting in which, for two or three examples of “initiatives” that say they are going well, they beat their chests.
The only thing missing is that in a few days or months someone discovers that behind the exceptional success there is a cat hidden—perhaps a chubby cat like the ones he raised. Alejandro Gil in that MSME in Ciego de Ávila—but it is not my intention to spoil your celebration but to remind you, first, that in Cuba where everything goes wrong and the laws are made to keep it that way, what is going “well” should be under suspicion; and second, that each exception that they have found in their continuous journeys – and that those are few when the last ones have been too many – further confirms that rule of general inability, of ineptitude of the rulers, which keeps the economy in a situation of calamity. .
Congresses, assemblies, PCC plenary sessions and tours are not needed to discover that it condemns us to perpetual misery. It is as if the father of a family of lazy people gathered in the living room to ask his children why they don’t have money, and what else other than working hard outside the home they could do to get out of poverty. or at least to save him, representing everyone. He does not want to listen to the stranger who passes by and shouts a solution, nor to the son who has discovered the serious error of laziness, nor to the one who offers them a job, a worthy escape from misery.
The father and most of his children, having turned the home into a prison, have been lazy for a long time, to the point that they have come to believe that this bad life is their job, the only worthy one that exists. That is the essence of the IX Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the PCC, and of the previous ones, and of all the congresses from the first to the last.
