The revelation of the immense sums that the Castro military octopus manages results in founded questions.
Havana, Cuba.- A substantial article published in Cubanet This Wednesday informs us about the “Cuban military empire” and its “hidden wealth.” This work is based on documents until that moment secrets, achieved and published by the prestigious American newspaper The Miami Herald.
The discovered stationery shows the remarkable preeminence of the “military emporium that dominates key sectors of the national economy.” The above includes such important aspects such as tourism, banking, retail trade and remittances.
The statements made to the Miamense newspaper by the prominent Cuban economist Pavel Vidal are collected: “This is the first time that detailed financial data of Gaesa is available to evaluate her monopolistic and financial power with figures,” he says who also works as a university professor in Colombia, referring to the total opacity with which the octopus acts. And he adds: “Gaesa does not yield or respond.”
The revelation of the million that is in the hands of the aforementioned military entity is all the more shocking than the Cuban regime claims not to have currencies to acquire medicines, boost the production of basic foods or import them, or mitigate the fateful blackouts (which, among our compatriots inside the country they have become more illuminated sporadic).
According to Professor Vidal, “the profits on Gaesa’s sales would be equivalent to about 40 % of Cuba’s gross domestic product.” In his textual words: “Gaesa’s participation in Cuba’s GDP exceeds the percentage attributed to state oil companies in Latin America, such as Ecopetrol in Colombia, Petrobras in Brazil or even PDVSA in Venezuela.”
One is forced to contrast these shocking information with texts such as the article “The trap of equidistance”published last Monday in Cubadebate by the Spanish Carlos González Criminalva. As will be remembered, I am talking about a text in which, although without excessive virulence, the flat singer -songwriter is amended Israel Rojas for having participated (regardless of the remarkable warmth with which he did, nor the eminent “revolutionary” character of his approaches) in the program The desktop of the organization the young Cuba.
The critical author of Equidistance mentions on more than one occasion “the socialist project.” And, in the light of such approaches and taking into account the shocking revelation on the billions of dollars held by Gaesa, it is unavoidable that we ask ourselves what are the motivations of the foreign author (Asturian, for more signs), the reasons why he lends himself to undertake a crusade that the penalty feathers have not been able to (or have not wanted) to initiate.
Will it be simply a ploy to continue enjoying, and even more, its vacation in Cuban luxury hotels, paid by Liborio Pérez, personification of the island’s people? Or really González Criminalva will continue to believe (even if it is a little) all the communist rhetoric that was so fashionable in the initial years of the so -called “revolution”, but that, over the years, he lost more and more sense, until he became, today, today, in a kind of ridiculous caricure of the equal ínfulas that were so in vogue in the sixties of the last century?
Because in those times there was much talk about “the property of all the people.” It is already known that this supposed preeminence of the population as a whole on the existing goods on the island, in practice, translated into the order and command of the members of the so -called “revolutionary government”, who had all that wealth on their own and before themselves. And this, to top it off, in the case of a de facto regime, because he had not even deigned to make a liar choice (of those that the communists usually organize, such as those of the Cuban deputies of now).
But it is also true that, in those initial times, those mandamases acted – it must repeat it – on behalf of the “people.” Everything was controlled, governed and administered through the entities belonging to the aforementioned “revolutionary government”, and the property of the different companies fell to the Cuban state.
But how is it possible to continue using the same rhetoric when, as indicated in the report, the military business octopus accumulates a fortune of … “more than 18,000 million dollars”! ?, which represents a “figure greater than the international reserves of countries such as Uruguay, Costa Rica or Panama”!
With what face (although perhaps it would be more appropriate to use the term “jeta”) continue to repeat the liar anti -capitalist rhetoric when we are talking about the Business Administration Group, Sociedad Anónima (which is what the acronym Gaesa means)? And can something more bourgeois and antisocialist be conceived than a corporation! How far the shame will come!
As the final paragraph of this Wednesday’s report in this Wednesday in Cubanet: “Meanwhile, the regime continues to blame the American embargo for the crisis that the island is going through. But the documents obtained by the Miami Herald They show that money exists and that misery in Cuba is not due to the lack of resources, but to a power structure that manages them based on their own interests. ”
