HAVANA, Cuba. – If everything that has happened these days with the dictatorial regimes in the region has not outraged us enough to take to the streets full time, then it is very likely that we will see Nicolás Maduro, Daniel Ortega and Miguel Díaz-Canel die of old age peacefully in their positions, just as we saw Fidel Castro leave without paying for the crimes committed, and how we will soon see his brother say goodbye with a mocking smile on his lips. In the end, they will get their way and those of us who let them do it—whether out of fear, apathy or resignation, out of complicity—do not deserve another farewell beyond the laughter on our faces.
We deserve ridicule because you cannot have compassion or pity for a people who light candles and dedicate prayers to the dying singerbut who does nothing to pressure and punish the rulers for the death of more innocent young people, who does not even demand days of mourning or who is not offended because the news of what happened in Holguín does not make headlines in the official media and, worse than that, that the tragedy is treated as insignificant compared to the redundant reports about a ridiculous “freedom caravan” that seems more like a carnival of grotesqueries, or about a Venezuela idiotized by the Chavismo that has nothing to do with the will of the majority of Venezuelans who long for the return of democracy.
But it has not been the regime’s propaganda media that has buried the news of the explosions in Holguín, but rather ourselves with our infinite “tolerance” in the face of abuse, with our selfishness and our lack of empathy, with our overflowing credulity, all attitudes studied by the regime and that it knows how to use to its advantage in these cases, when it suits it that something as extraordinary and tragic, as scandalous as what happened, goes unnoticed even by the foreign media, incapable of analyzing the real situation. Beyond the notes released by the Ministry of the Armed Forces (MINFAR), which just because it is the same institution that hides information about its companies, and that maintains collaboration agreements with Russia and China, there is enough for us to doubt the veracity of their statements.
But the foreign media—some because of their distance from the scene and others because they seek to preserve their credentials on the Island, waiting to one day have the scoop of reporting live on this long-delayed end of the dictatorship—can be “forgiven.” ” that prioritize in their reports the inauguration of the Tower K either the opening of the most recent dollar market. Not to Cubans and Cubans.
Those of us who cannot turn our backs on the matter, much less turning our faces to the side we are ordered to look at from the Television Newswe are the ones who should be concerned as a personal matter the disappearance and death of these Active Military Service boysalready because of the very high probability that it will happen again (since it has already happened in the recent past, and since those underground arsenals are everywhere), and because no one can assure with complete certainty that it was an “accident”, much less when no expert has yet been located at ground zero, when no one knows for sure what started the detonations, whether it was accidental or intentional.
Both possibilities require much deeper analysis than simply accepting the accident as something casual, with no greater importance than the scare and no greater significance than a few bereaved families. If it was truly accidental, there are bosses to hold accountable and punish, and there are rules and protocols to change or strictly enforce. If it was intentional, then the situation becomes more complex, and that is something for which the regime would urgently seek to divert attention as it exposes him too vulnerable, even if behind the intention there was only the act of a suicide, who does not It would be the first in an abused, enslaved soldiery that perceives Active Military Service as a sentence to hell, as the extreme lack of freedom in a scenario absolutely without freedoms and without opportunities.
Almost all of us, for convenience or because we certainly don’t care (which is the most serious thing), have agreed with the official version about some expired projectiles that would be being classified for transfer to another place, a story that is easy to believe if it were not accompanied by strange coincidences, such as the date chosen for the transfer – when, due to the festivities at the end and beginning of the year, the activities in most military units are reduced to the essential minimum -, and the proximity of the presidential inauguration in Venezuela, for which The Maduro regime not only activated its Army one hundred percent, but also the Armed and security forces of its allies.
Let us keep in mind that, despite the tense situation in Venezuela, the possibility that massive protests by the opposition would ruin the consummation of the coup d’état, and that at least several leaders of Maduro’s Army decided to obey the legitimate president-elect Edmundo González (a possibility that is too remote but not negligible in security matters), Miguel Díaz-Canel was preparing to attend Maduro’s investiture ceremony and, therefore, needed to place his own and reinforced security body in Caracas capable of facing any surprise attack but, above all, capable of extracting it from the conflict zone, and for that he undoubtedly took enough weapons to resist an attack, as well as Raúl Castro’s own security chief.
While we all the time doubt the sincerity of official accounts in other matters, we have accepted this one so readily that it is difficult not to be surprised. Especially when the treatment of the news in the propaganda media is intentionally aimed at making us turn the page as soon as possible, and when the MINFAR notes leave more questions than answers.
With astonishing ease we can sense the deception in what they tell us about the “benefits” of dollarization or about the aid to the victims of the last hurricane (knowing the helplessness that still affects those from the first and even the penultimate one), about the lack of liquidity to acquire food and fuel but, on the other hand, we accept at first glance that the deaths of so many young people have been that coincidence and that accident that the military has concluded even without investigating.
Or is what really happened in Holguín so obvious to them that it is not necessary to clarify anything? It seems that there is no need to punish those responsible for sending inexperienced boys to carry out an activity as dangerous as sorting expired ammunition (typical of expert personnel) or to extinguish a large fire in a fuel tank.
Today, relegated by the fanfare of influencers and useful fools, very few of us are asking ourselves such questions, even knowing that the answers are being buried in a hurry, while we are entertained with the rise and fall of the dollar rate, the beginning of car sales and everything that It helps us pretend that we are “normal” in a country where young people die without anyone getting angry or at least lighting a candle for them. With such signs, there will be dictatorship forever.
