The worst of all is not that the dictatorship would “forget” the elections, but that the Cubans get used to “live” without them.
Puerto Padre, Cuba. – There, early in the 60s of the last century, while the agricultural, industrial and capital properties passed from private hands to the State and lived a civil war that enlutted the country, Aunt Lala, very fine weaver as it was, my mother gave my mother a beautiful mat with the classic embroidered words: Love, health, money.
I bring the memory of my childhood because, as it is well known, although money alone does not get love or preserves health, capital does do politics, as happened and happens today in our country, where at the expense of national clarity, which plague of undesirable herbs reproduces Carihartos characters, which make political discourse a lucrative national and transnational business. This is not new, only now the dispens is public and notorious while in other times, even Fidel Castro disguised himself as a machetero without taking his wife to cosmopolitan tourism-political trips.
We are the Cubans in that rule that has more of the subtraction that, in addition, being, as we are already captive for more than 60 years in the Archipelago-Cárcel that is Cuba, while others are scattered around the world first than all expatriates of themselves.
It is not new. Already in a peak work, The RepublicPlato conceptualized the political evolution of the world in four regimes: timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny, socio -political stages that even in its most respectful version of the rights of people such as democratic governments, so and everything in them does not get power without an association with the Caudales Box, because, as Don Quixote said to Sancho, there are only two lineages in the world, which are to have. In another way less philosophical and more earthly, my father said that the world moves with only three words, which are those of the three lines of the accounting book: There must be and Balance.
I bring to riveting what is said so far in this article, A publication this Wednesday In the Social Network X of the Office of Affairs of the Western Hemisphere of the United States Department of State, which denounces that the Cuban economy is structurally – to be organized as a watchmaking system – manipulated in favor of high officials of the regime, which discourages any foreign capital project. “Cuba is not open to business, she is rigged to benefit the regime’s offices,” says the complaint. And he concludes: “Cuban corruption, not the outside world, is what frightens money.” Said, right?
Hold me, but in that concert of the Castrocommunist oligarchs, which is like a kind of the aunt Lala’s mat, then an old fox comes, Ladino in the art of uncovering comadreos and compadreos to convenience that an expert is added 94 years old. As if he really cared about the age of the subordinates in service, forced to obey by military and political discipline as they are, from a sergeant or a political commissioner or the “president” of Cuba – both who is now in office as the finger of here to two years -, the nonagenarian that He says yesthat although before it could not be, hereinafter it may be that the “President of the Republic” is over 60 years old when he was elected in his first “mandate.”
Oh, Belcebú! And ran rivers of ink and saliva lubricating millions of words. He forgot everything. Everyone has tried to guess who will be the puppet from here to two years, the new “dictator.” It was forgotten that the owners of the command in Cuba are the owners of the money, the generals with real command beyond the troops, who are the ones who direct or are behind multimillionaire businesses. And it was forgotten that the first of the generals, Raúl Castro, already appointed his successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel, and put him in office, which is not a transitory position like that of “President”, but is that of the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), “Superior leading political force of society and the State”, according to article 5 of the Constitution “Raulista”.
Rubricated in the Sierra Maestra, on July 12, 1957 by Fidel Castro, head of the July 26 Movement; Raúl Chibas Ribas, president of the Cuban people party (Orthodox) and Felipe Pazos Roque, former president of the National Bank of Cuba, among other pronouncements, the manifesto to the people of Cuba agreed that as of the date on which the dictatorship of Batista was defeated, in 18 months, general elections would be convened as conceptualized by the Constitution of 1940. Constitutional, accrued by the coup d’etat of March 10, 1952, fled Cuba in the early morning of the 1st. January 1959, the so -called “revolutionary government”, then chaired in a “provisional” way by Osvaldo Dorticós and Prime Minister Fidel Castro, had to convene general elections on June 30, 1960. But of those elections that were never, the worst thing was not that he “forgot” the dictatorship, but that the Cubans would get used to “live” without elections. Then … What does the age of the “president” matter in a country without elections?
