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Rafael Ferro Salas
PINAR DEL RÍO, March (www.cubanet.org) - Cuban government officials
spare no effort in the search of pretexts to justify the sad reality that is
lived out on the island. In the face of the armed conflict between the United
States and Iraq, the Cuban discourse is now aimed at justifying the nation's own
misfortunes with the foreign war.
Among Cubans it is said there will be more hunger for us with the war.
The comments are no more than the response to the intentional, subliminal
message of the speeches of the pinnacle who rules in Cuba. The "indoctrinating"
and obligatory televised round tables are their instrument of support.
Official media journalists, transformed into "specialists" on the
global economy, have dared to predict astronomical increases in the price of
oil; all this with the corresponding negative effect for Cuba, thanks to the
war.
The intention remains very clear. With the war, all the past and future
miseries crashing down on Cubans will have one culprit: the United States
government, creator of the conflagration.
Perhaps an observer who is not astute and is unaware of the Cuban reality
accepts the argument served up by those who rule. Someone who's not deceived
because he knows the Cuban reality will not even take the trouble to listen to
the arguments of the deceitful apologists.
Cuban reality is different and goes beyond the war. Cuban reality is the
very war carried out by an obsolete regime that refuses to give notice to the
world of its inevitable decline. At the cost of clinging absurdly to a utopia,
the Cuban regime forces those on the island to live in the most abominable hell
of prohibitions and scarcities.
The imposed socialism teaches no other way out besides deliberate
disinformation. On the other side of the lie walks the truth of those who are
rebeling, weary of so much nonsense, of so many absurd notions.
José Martí, the most internationally famous Cuban, pronounced
a maxim of warning for the future for which he died:
"The socialist idea has two dangers, like so many others: that of
alien, confusing and incomplete readings, and that of the arrogance and hidden
fury of the ambitious who, in order to rise up in the world, begin by feigning
so as to have shoulders on which to pull themselves up, frenzied defenders of
the helpless."
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