Havana Cuba. — The leaders of Castroism are terrified in view of the votes to come on the 26th. They, who for more than six long decades have imposed themselves on their fellow citizens through coercion, arbitrariness and imposition —in short, terror— These days they have been forced to swallow big spoonfuls of their own bitter medicine.
That panic was reflected in information published last Saturday by Cuban newspaper. The title of the journalistic work is very eloquent: A survey reveals the concerns of the regime before the votes of March 26. The creator of the poll would have been the Center for Sociopolitical and Opinion Studies (CESPO), attached to the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The interest of the institution would focus on “the state of mind of the population to attend the polls on March 26.”
The panic that seizes the communist leaders also continues to show itself in the primitive campaign of agitation and propaganda that their mass media carry out in favor of the so-called “people’s candidates.” Day after day information continues to appear on the electoral campaign acts carried out by the various candidates in the municipalities for which they “aspire.”
In the news the faces of the 470 citizens chosen to represent the “people” in the next “National Assembly of People’s Power” appear; but above all that of Mr. Díaz-Canel. Anyone would say that, in the opinion of the bureaucrats of the Ideological Department, the display of those faces was enough to ensure the enthusiasm and support of the voters.
What makes you think such a thing! If they were to approach the matter with a more cool and objective approach, they are likely to draw the opposite conclusion. The aquiline noses of the postulates, the pachydermic bellies that they exhibit (especially when it comes to leaders who have already reached the national level), the only thing they remember are the innumerable unfulfilled promises made in past years by the same now aspirants, the resounding failure to which they have led our unfortunate Cuba.
Within the extreme clumsiness of the communist agitation and propaganda apparatus, what was perpetrated last Friday in prime time reached insurmountable heights. At that time or a little later, the soap opera on duty should be broadcast. This is a sacred time for our compatriots.
That day it is the turn of the Cuban novel. In my modest opinion, it is of superior quality to its Brazilian counterpart, with which it alternates; but I clarify that I speak as a simple spectator of rows, because I do not claim to be a specialist in dramatized. In any case, it is a fact that Pending issues it has an excellent script; its direction is successful, and the performances are good. In short, there is talent.
But behold, the interest aroused in the spectators by those virtues of the soap opera national was used this Friday to convoy a political-cultural act of communist propaganda. Under the pretext of closing the Second International Colloquium “Patria”, held in Havana in the preceding days, the event began at the end of the All-Star Newscast of Cuban Television.
Despite the jingoistic and demagogic name of the event, the inevitable foreign speakers were not absent. Three specimens of that Latin American fauna that paints itself for this type of act paraded through the rostrum. In this case, that function corresponded to the Argentine María Fernanda Ruiz, the Mexican Daniel Tobar and the Ecuadorian Gabriela Rivadeneira.
Pretentiousness? Clumsiness? Mere shame? It is probable that, in each case, it is a combination of several of them; maybe three o’clock. What does not admit of doubt is that you have to have a very special face to stand before an entire town and start (which was, essentially, what the three of them did) to praise the regime that that same town suffers.
Yes, you have to be pretentious, or cretinous, or cheeky, or several of those things. Especially when the speech is delivered after spending a week or a decade living, at the expense of the starving Cuban people, in a luxurious five-star hotel. And when it is intended to illustrate, about the supposed benefits of the regime that governs them, to the nationals, who, in the case of the oldest, have lived it in their own flesh for almost six and a half decades; and in that of the youngest, throughout their lives!
The activity ended with a long concert by the group “Good faith”. It is a set that is not without artistic merit (and, once again, I say this as a layman). However, the unbridled governmentism of its members has earned it the rejection of the Cubans. And to such a great extent, that the usual thing has been for the public, at his concerts, to be conspicuous by his absence.
In fact, on the initial date scheduled for the political-cultural act —last Tuesday— pre-university students had been ordered to attend “without excuses or pretext.” Fortunately, for reasons unknown to me, the suspension of the activity was imposed. This freed them from having to attend future high school graduates (particularly those from Vedado). It was up to others to be mobilized for the same purpose.
In any case, citizens eager to find out about the latest “Unfinished Business” had to wait until midnight to do so. And this is how these communists plan to win the sympathy of their subjects! They are crazy!
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