Havana Cuba. — On January 12, the imprisonment of singer-songwriter Fernando Bécquer made headlines. As will be remembered, after long delays, the musician was put on trial, in which dozens of women paraded. They narrated the sexual abuse to which the mediocre artist subjected them. The sentence imposed at the beginning was not long: five years. But even this seemed excessive to the higher court, which reduced it to only three years and four months.
However, the most scandalous thing in this case was not the duration of the punishment decreed, but rather the substitution of prison for a subsidiary penalty of limitation of liberty. In essence, that meant that Bécquer would continue leading his normal life. Such was the payment that the repressors made to the political fidelity of the accused, who, using the archaic and repulsive Castro rhetoric, proclaimed to be “a troubadour of Homeland or Death.”
But we already know the saying of the ancient polytheistic Greeks: “The gods blind those who want to lose.” Mr. Fernando could have simply enjoyed the outrageously lenient sanction imposed by the communist courts. And for the record that I classify her that way because —as I already pointed out— her guilt was declared not based on the statement of a single woman, but on those of many of them.
Instead of doing that, Bécquer stubbornly chose to continue flaunting his misogyny at all costs. And to such a great extent, that the lords of Castroism considered it their duty to attack the singer-songwriter. Both the head of the FMC (Federation of Cuban Women) and Mrs. Lis Cuesta (whom her eminent husband says that she is not First Lady, but that she acts as such), invoked in this context the slogan “0 tolerance”.
Of course, for those of us who know the way in which communists tend to act, it is clear that the indignation of Teresa Amarelle and the non-First Lady does not obey the indignation of one or the other or their feminist conscience. Before being encouraged to act in this way, it is evident that both had received the consent of the red high command; otherwise they would have remained silent.
The communist hierarchs acted like owners who give orders to their presa dogs: “Bite!”, “Shake!”. Immediately, the same judges who had shown such benevolence when sanctioning Fernando Bécquer, ordered the suspension of the benefits that they themselves had granted him with such generosity and ordered his imprisonment.
As my colleague Eloy Viera Cañive puts it in The touch: “The decision to revoke Bécquer’s sentence is not an autonomous and voluntary act of a judge. It is an indicated act”. For his part, Roberto Quiñones, in this same newspaperhe imagines “the phone calls and the orders to meet immediately and instruct the corresponding court to revoke the kind sanction applied.”
The same thing that happened years ago with “Pánfilo” has happened with this shady affair, but in reverse. And for the record that I am not referring to the nice old man played by the young and talented actor Luis Silva, but to Juan Carlos González Marcos, the funny drunk who back in 2009 became the representative and unofficial spokesman for the generality of Cubans with his firm calls of “ham!” and food!”.
In a journalistic work published CubaNet in September of that year, I alluded to the case of the latter. As is known, his judges, initially, ordered his confinement for two years for “antisocial behavior.” Later, in the face of the worldwide outcry that began to rise for someone who, without a doubt, was another prisoner of conscience, those same magistrates ordered his release.
In the two judicial cases that I have mentioned, what is revealed is the total arbitrariness of the Castro courts. In both processes, the red judges first said “I say” and then “Diego”. It does not matter that in the case of Bécquer their situation has worsened, while in the case of “Pánfilo”, they have improved it. I insist: the same thing happened with both of them, only in reverse.
The degree of judicial arbitrariness in the “Bécquer case” is masterfully emphasized by colleague Quiñones Haces in just four lines of his journalistic work. These lapidary sentences appear there: “Continuing to make misogynistic statements is more important than having abused twenty women, some minors. That easy”.
In the current case of the mediocre singer-songwriter, as in the case of “Pánfilo” years ago, the power of public opinion has been revealed. In both events, if the Cuban judicial authorities amended the arbitrariness that they had initially perpetrated, it was only thanks to the indignation that they provoked in decent people, which was expressed in the avalanche of criticism that fell on the former.
We already know that if the Castro judges removed the cloak of virtual impunity that they had spread over Fernando Bécquer, it was not because of their sense of equity. It was only because the most convenient thing for the regime, right now, was to sacrifice the mediocre singer-songwriter on the altar of his petty continuation interests.
But this forced measure constitutes an additional demonstration of the progressive disintegration that, happily, the communist cause is suffering in Cuba. Get ready for the unconditional ones who believe that their chicharronería (“obsecuencia”, would be the appropriate term in correct Spanish) will save them from the repression coming from their co-religionists in the judiciary.
If the case arises, those idiots will also have to appear before the biased Castro courts and see the inside of their filthy prisons. And that reality (which —I repeat— has been forced by circumstances) will serve to further weaken the controlling and absorbing power of the system that has caused chaos in our unfortunate Homeland.
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