Havana/The act for July 26 is the closest that the regime has to Holy Week, with its own Nonagenarian Pope – Raúl Castro – assisted by senior officials as Monaguillos, and expensive processions until blind from Ávila, the “Holy See” of this year, for the celebration of what has intended to be, despite the disastrous situation of the country, a Saturday of glory.
Of all the usual fanfare has realized Cuban television, which transmitted the act this morning – it always reserves its time to make the necessary cuts – marked by tear evocations to the failed assault to the Eastern Barracks of Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in 1953.
There was no lack of funeral images of Fidel Castro, Miguel Díaz-Canel’s shiny skin or the dramatized ones-both on stage as outside it-to satisfy the counted “historical” that remain to the revolution. Ramiro Valdés and José Ramón Machado Ventura were other representatives of the old guard who attended an appointment that this year has been apocada and said to carry people from the neighboring provinces.
At 94, Raúl Castro prefers to leave his comfortable retirement only on special occasions, in which he takes the opportunity to pat in the back to Díaz-Canel, applaud his management and pretend that the country does not crack. And the event in the blind of Ávila was no exception.
The usual tangraduras of clothing for the ‘blockade’ were not missing, but there were also self -criticism in the ‘show’
The usual tangraduras of clothing did not miss by the blockadebut there were also self -criticism in the show That touched Prime Minister Manuel Marrero and that a year earlier was the negotiated of Salvador Valdés Mesa since, since 2023, the president prefers not to take the prominence.
According to Marrero, the country faces, as never before, “huge challenges”, but says he is convinced that the formula will always bring this time different results: “Yes you can, thanks to the decision, industriousness, intelligence and commitment of the Cuban people.” The “annoying blackouts” came out to shine that affect citizens so much, although during the ceremony the light did not go or once in the Plaza Máxima Gómez Báez.
He also mentioned other deficiencies such as problems with food supply, drinking water, transport and medicines, as well as unbridled inflation, and stressed the urgency of “eliminating obstacles, correcting deficiencies and turning the people’s effort into tangible results.”
As for the “imperialist enemy,” Marrero said that “he does not rest in his efforts to destroy the Cuban revolution” and that he seeks to take advantage of any internal difficulty to sow discouragement, divide, and cause social outbreaks that justify an intervention. ” He also called for “defeating any subversion attempt” with “historical experience, unity, political consciousness and morals.”
The crisis was quickly buried by the great “efforts” that the Government put this year in the blind of Ávila
However, the crisis was quickly buried by the great “efforts” that the Government put this year in the blind of Ávila, and that in practice they translate in giving hands of paint and wearing a plate to cover the potholes: seven solar parks built in nine months; Sports and tourism achievements; rehabilitation of a hospital; 22 health centers; 16 schools; The theater; a home for childhood without parental care; the agricultural market; 702 electrified culture areas and 25 new water pumping services.
The experience was lived last year Sancti Spíritus, just as renovated then and that today looks as if the streets had not seen a single gallon of paint and not a sack of cement.
As for Díaz-Canel, in his brief Parliament he fulfilled the expectations of the usual rhetoric plagued with common places and with warming tones, with phrases such as “turning the setbacks into victory”, “we live under a hegemonic imperialism that encourages wars” or “to solidarity we must have resisted the attacks of imperialism”.
The night ended with applause for the friends of Cuba – the same 500 foreigners who march every year during May 1 or participate in political acts – who traveled to support the celebration, with leaders dancing to the rhythm of the Arnaldo sauce and its talisman, and with Raúl and its cohort moving at full speed some paper cuban flags and abandoned the scenario July 26 march.
