HAVANA.- For the Castro bosses, as the saying goes, what doesn’t kill them makes them fat. And in what way! A – paraphrasing the poet and the singer-songwriter who set his verses to music – is not at all quiet, because the more they sink, the greater their fuss.
The restrictions on fuel access to Cuba imposed by Donald Trump He is serving the regime, an expert in taking political advantage of everything—even adversity—and in turning the tables without barely moving the pan, to, once again, present himself to the world as a victim of the United States, and always holding the hungry Cuban people as a hostage, begging for donations and international aid.
What is incredible is the level of persuasion and conviction that the Castros still have to deceive the naive, stupid and hypocrites from half the world and make them swallow their lies and nonsense. You just have to listen to those who say they are worried about the possibility that a humanitarian crisis may occur in Cuba, suffocated by the lack of fuel.
Now do they care about Cuba and the Cubans? Didn’t you wonder until now why the economy kept collapsing and Cubans lived in increasingly poor conditions? Have you never asked yourself the reasons why since the July 11, 2021 Do Cubans protest in the streets, at the risk of being sentenced to long prison sentences? For what reasons have nearly a million people, mainly young people, left Cuba in less than five years?
The justification given by Castroism was enough for them as an explanation for all this: the North American embargo-blockade of more than 64 years. Incidentally, it also served them to explain, with more or less reservations, depending on their inclination to the left and their animosity towards the United States, the disrespect for human rights and the lack of political freedoms, which they consider unthinkable in a besieged square.
Now it turns out that I turned them offs, the critical state of the hospitals, the mountains of uncollected garbage accumulated in the streets, inflation, the shortage of food and medicine and all the other shortages and hardships that we Cubans suffer are the fault of Trump’s executive order issued in January. As if before that we had lived like princes and had not been mired in that disaster for years; as if the numerous and repeated anti-economic nonsense and failures of the worst and most inept government team in Cuba had nothing to do with this polycrisis in which they have plunged us.
The bosses are appealing to their hackneyed patriotic speech to demand more sacrifice and resistance from the people, knowing that this very worn-out, outdated 19th-century nationalism is already having less and less effect on a population exhausted by suffering and tired of so much lying and manipulation.
But even this lack of effect of his speech is taken advantage of, warning about the danger to the existence of the Cuban nation posed by the desperate people who speak out for a North American military intervention and even for annexation to the United States.
Frightened, feeling threatened, the bosses reinforce the discourse of the besieged square and resort to repression against anyone who dares to joke, even on social networks.
To scare people with the possibility of war, they repeat that the bombs do not have the name of who they are directed against. And even fewer have it when they try to involve civilians and turn them into military objectives in “the war of all the people,” which they know that, if it occurs, they have no way of winning.
If they thought more about the well-being of Cubans than about their attachment to power, the leaders of continuity, instead of being arrogant and intransigent and continuing to use the people as hostages, should be filled with good sense and pragmatism and start negotiating. That is, if they aren’t already doing it.
But let it be serious. By deceiving, distracting, confusing, creating insidiousness, trying to gain time, the only thing they will achieve is to aggravate and prolong the suffering of Cubans.
