Six days before, Joe Biden, after a tripartite negotiation with the Vatican and the military dictatorship of the island, decided to exclude the country from that list in exchange for the release of 553 political prisoners. The news left a bad taste in the anti -Castro exile, the illegal internal opposition and even several political prisoners expressed their disagreement for being used as exchange currencies.
The goal to Biden
The regime had cast a goal for the entire squad to old Joe and their political compadre, Pope Francis. Of the 553 prisoners who began to release, most were not common inmates. Some of the political prisoners, such as José Daniel Ferrer, had already served more than half of his unfair sentence, so in theory they should have been put on probation, according to the island’s own prison standards.
And since nobody came up to verify the list, the ‘comrades’ of the Communist Party, cheat par excellence, mixed political prisoners with common criminals at the reason of three by one. Nor was it absolute freedom. According to him New York Timesthe dictatorship wanted the released dissidents to leave Cuba. The classic banishment. The Vatican and the urgency before Trump arrived at the White House made them sign the deal.
Regime officials expressed enigmatic that probation could be revoked if the exonvict breached the norms. Without legal guarantees for those released and null transparency, the dictatorship intended to sell the story of a generous concession hiding reality: those people had never had to go to prison.
Ephemeral celebration
A former Communist Party says that in the sewers of power bruised whiskey bottles and Añejo Ron when on the afternoon of Monday, January 14, Biden excluded Cuba from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism. “After the drinks they began to take accounts and make plans. Cuban political operators knew that Trump, and especially Marco Rubio, was going to reverse that measure. They thought it would be within six months. And they already had a package of reformist economic measures on the exit grid to try to stop the United States’s decision to return to the list of countries that support terrorism. ”
But Trump shattered the Castro fantasy. “Although in the face of the gallery they demanded the cessation of the blockade and appeared long faces, in private they were already recovering tourism and obtaining financial credits. The bait to appease the Trump administration was to sell the narrative of a liberal court opening. With them ruling, of course. They assume that Trump likes strong Putin style or the North Korean dictator. This time the shot came out of the cylinder head, ”says the former official.
Unprecedented
In record time, the US president annulled Biden’s decision. It will be necessary to look in the history of the executive decrees, but it is likely that the measure of excluding Cuba from the blacklist could mark a precedent.
The reaction of the dictatorship was predictable: stop the release. Since Tuesday, January 21, there is no news about the release of new political prisoners. The Chinese padlock of the dark dungeons closed again. And the war contingency plans began.
The first ‘indignant’ was Miguel Díaz-Canel, Testaferro designated by Raúl Castro, who in his X account “arrogance” Trump’s decision to return to Cuba to the list of sponsoring nations of terrorism. And accused the Republican tycoon of pursuing the objective of “continuing to strengthen the cruel economic war against Cuba for purposes of domination.”
Threats
In an apparent threat, Díaz-Canel said that the result of these president’s policies has caused “an increase in the migratory flow of Cuba to the United States.” By effect dominated the bureaucratic caste that holds the power on the island replied the official discontent and accused “to the Yankee imperialism of wanting to suffocate the Cuban people.”
The Castro paripé was boiling. In a few hours, the Bastion 2024 military strategic exercise was prepared, which according to the state press was planned for November 2024, but due to the passage of two hurricanes and an earthquake, it was postponed. In a cubicle lined with varnished wood, the main plan of the army, chaired by dictator Raúl Castro and his bow mask, Díaz-Canel, who dressed in olive green, lustrous shoes and prominent belly made the inaugural speech, was gathered.
Chery, a clerk in a private business, stunned the announcer of the television news that with a peripatetic narrative described the bastion exercises. “What else chea. In that place there are more than nine thousand years together. Look how old are those military. And the most pathetic is the screen they have put to the background where the governors of the Teleconference Party take notes and settle in silence. How many millions will have been spent on that madness?
A mockery
Joel, a private taxi driver, considers that “it is a mockery of the people to spend millions of pesos to mobilize people and waste the little fuel we have. Two weeks ago a weapon deposit exploded in Holguin. Training with that outdated armament is one more danger for people than for the enemy. ”
Raisa, mother of a young man who studies at the university, says that her son “will not go to any of those lying maneuvers. We have nothing to lunch and now the government gets off with that story. From Monday to Friday my son gets three or four hours at a stop because public transport does not work. However, on the day of that bastion, by magic they put transport so that the students would go shooting. ”
Díaz-Canel attended a shooting practice with students from the University of Computer Science (ICU), located in the old Russian espionage base known as Finca Lourdes. The ICU has a key role in the propaganda dysfunction of the regime in social networks and the confrontation of people who criticize the dictatorship.
The former Communist Party official states that this strategy is not new. “It is from the time of Fidel Castro. Every time a president of the United States arrived at the White House, Fidel mobilized the troops, militiamen, reservists and state security. It seemed that he was going to start a war. It was a waste of Money of the treasury. Hollows to build tunnels in case of an air attack. “
Old manual
In their opinion, they have recovered the faithful war manual. “But the times are others. The government does not have the support of most Cubans and people are more informed, thanks to Internet access. It is a scandal that in the midst of 15 -hour blackouts and a general shortage, they believe A scenario of distraction with the intention of selling an ideological discourse to an impoverished and poorly fed people. We will see what happens to Trump. ”
Karl Marx, the creator of communism, wrote a devastating phrase: history occurs twice, the first time as a great tragedy, the second as a miserable farce. He is traced to what happens with the Castro dictatorship in Cuba.
