The Reasons Of The Wrath

A few days ago, protests broke out in the eastern region of Cuba, mainly in Santiago and Bayamo. Fuel shortages have caused power outages, sometimes for more than eight hours, with the painful consequences that one can imagine for the well-being of the population. So, a few hundred people took to the streets to protest. If for some, it was a spontaneous explosion of anger, for others, these demonstrations followed a well-structured plan from the outside. As was to be expected, the entire anti-Cuban community in Miami stood up unanimously to welcome the beginning of the end of the Cuban socialist “regime”.

For several days, we could observe, on social networks which host numerous anti-government sites, bellicose instructions about sabotage, graffiti and “spontaneous” demonstrations against “the dictatorship”. “Act in small groups, no more than two”, “be discreet”, “don’t tell anyone about what you plan to do”, etc., and other basic instructions could be read here and there. These tips all came from people living outside of Cuba, primarily in Miami. The order givers, the generals of social disorder, rarely get involved in the field; they prefer the comfort of a headquarters installed in a sheltered location and far from possible excesses. In other words, we encourage people to light fires but we will not breathe the smoke that comes with the fire.

As was to be expected, the US embassy in Havana immediately interfered in the internal affairs of the island, warning the government and urging them to respect the rights of the population to ‘express. There is something grotesque in this position of the American authorities, don’t you think? A large part, if not the majority of the problems that Cuba is experiencing comes precisely from the criminal blockade, imposed for more than sixty years by this same power and condemned unanimously – minus two countries: the United States and Israel – by concert nations represented at the UN.

It is worth recalling the words spoken on April 6, 1962 by Undersecretary of State, Lester D. Mallory, to the young Cuban revolutionary government: “Cause disenchantment and discouragement through shortages so as to what the population expresses its dissatisfaction at the economic level […] ; weaken the economy by denying Cuba access to money and other resources necessary to reduce wages, starve the population, provoke despair and eventually overthrow this government. » Sixty-two years later, this is what the White House is still striving to do.

If oil is scarce, it is because it is risky to deliver it to Cuba. Heavy fines, inability to dock in a port in the United States for six months, not to mention that the empire can decide as it sees fit to seize an oil tanker on the high seas like they did with the Boeing 747 Venezuelan, recently, with the help of the far-right Argentine government. And then, doing business with a country shamefully and falsely accused of encouraging terrorism, not all traders, multinationals among others, are interested in doing so, at their own risk.

Fuel shortages don’t just affect the lighting in the house, it’s the entire production chain, the entire industry, light and heavy, which suffers. It is the transport of goods and food that is affected. It is the production of sugar and other foodstuffs which is paralyzed. Hence the exasperation and discontent. This is what the enemy opposite has wanted for more than sixty years.

A few weeks ago, I spoke to you about the anarchy reigning in Haiti. Whose fault is it ? Certainly not socialism, because according to the latest news, Haiti is not under the governance of a left-wing government. But what the socialist government of Cuba has done all these years is to try to alleviate somewhat the distress of this bloodless people, its neighbor in the Caribbean, by sending not soldiers but contingents of doctors to care for the population, contingents of literacy instructors to teach children and adults to read and write, sowing a grain of hope in this country given over to the voracious appetites of delinquents of all kinds.