PUERTO PADRE, Cuba.- The United States is experiencing days of danger and it worries me. I have said it on other occasions: I love USAwhom I know from books and magazines long before I set foot on the land of 33 of its States, I love it for its nature, for its people, for its history, and because my children live there and my grandchildren were born.
But in my family we had an American many years before my grandchildren. I met him. Many nights I had to take care of Mayaya, his widow. He died in Cuba. He had donated money to the July 26 Movement even to buy airplanes. That was when Fidel Castro He still denied being a communist. Then the Castro regime began expropriations precisely for the properties of the Americans.
And now that American, who at the end of the 20s or beginning of the 30s of the last century married my paternal aunt María Reyes, reminds me of President Joe Biden and the brotherhood that next January, yes, he will leave to inhabit the White House but not the country. Mr. Morris, they said to that American.
His name was Julian Morris. He was very fond of hunting and deep-sea fishing in a boat that he brought from Tampa. He was energetic. Brave. But this was a strange thing: he could be as candid as a baby, even with people who were neither his family nor those close to him.
The Americans
That perhaps led my father, a pragmatic type, to a lapidary generalization: “Americans are like big children,” he said; and, it is known: in the same way that childhood naivety is a sign of purity to germinate, in an adult person, criminologically speaking, naivety and victim become synonyms.
I bring the family anecdote to the public issue, because that… let’s call it “naiveté” of Mr. Morris, we have seen it multiplied on a national scale in the United States. We saw it eight years in the simplicity of the Obama and Joe Biden Government and we have seen it another four years in the Biden-Harris administration when dealing not only with the Castro-communist issues diplomatsbut also in the most diverse relationships, ranging from agricultural to national security issues, and which are, and well known to be, declared adversaries of the political, economic and social system of the United States.
I say this and only to cite one of many examples, because not long ago it caused socio-political, human and historical noise, to see Cuban customs officers snooping around in one of the most important American airports, the Miami International Airport, led by the hand the Department of State USAas if they were “visits from the Cuban Ministry of Transportation”, and not what they actually are: explorations by very seasoned officers of the Castro-communist secret services, on secondment to Customs, which is precisely directed by a colonel from the Ministry of the Interior. .
Careful!
But that Miami airport incident, and then admitting in American soil to high-ranking Cuban communist leaders and repressors, without the slightest feeling of guilt, it is only the last link in a long chain of… “Mr. Morris-style naiveté”, because in our case, Cuba, and this not only involves the administration Biden, but also several administrations in the past, we have seen how the totalitarian Castro-communist regime has selected, studied, recruited, trained and directed intelligence agents within the highest echelons of the United States Government, violating not only the national security of that country, but also breaking the protection of universal freedoms of many countries, taking into account how much American national security means to the democratic nations of the world.
And we have seen, and not just with the “pro-Palestine student protests,” but for years now, how the main institutions of thought in the United States, which are its universities, are being taken over by what José Martí called “foreign readings.”
And, thus, if before we saw American flags burned, now we see the flag of the United States lowered at a university to raise the flag of Palestine in its place. It is a fact that carries a dangerous symbol. Careful!
The dangers
Thus we see how people who are students, academics or lecturers, with little or no intrinsic relationship with the American culture with deep democratic roots, or, possessing it, by birth, they deny it, and have become propagators or agents of influence of what very early, in May 1894, 130 years ago and precisely from the city of New York, José Martí warned when he said:
“The socialist idea has two dangers, like so many others, that of foreign, confusing and incomplete readings, and that of the arrogance and hidden rage of the ambitious, who in order to rise in the world, begin by pretending, to have shoulders in “You must rise, frantic defenders of the helpless.”
national security
And now in the United States the “frantic defenders of the homeless” have grown like undesirable weeds in a cornfield, choking it out. and the nation American is in danger due to myopia, understood as the inexcusable negligence of its rulers, who, having been democratically elected, have not compliment with the most important task of his constituents: ensuring national security.
Donald Trump won the election and in January we will have a Republican administration in the White House. But constitutionally – since he has already governed for one term – Trump only has four years to try to correct absurdities that are already rooted and not only in a political class.
I hope the Trump administration wins leadership with public policies designed to benefit all Americans, whether citizens of that country or residents, the United States, as a nation, and its partners, neutralizing or eliminating at the same time those who want to make the United States a socialist commune.
To get that aim strategically, the newly elected leaders must be able to strengthen themselves, with tangible actions, to the point that the hollow speeches of the “frantic defenders of the helpless” are shown for what they are: “ambitious, who in order to rise in the world, they start by pretending.”
Between the danger of the prosperous and democratic nation becoming extinct and the myopia of not seeing the threats that seek to strangle it, the United States should choose to go to meet each and every one of these threats and dismantle them without delay.
