Cuba's Mandelas behind bars

“True leaders must be willing to sacrifice everything for the freedom of their people”. Nelson Mandela.

All those young people who are now in prison and/or house arrest on the island darkened by communism are the Mandelas of Cuba, its future leaders and protagonists of the transition to democracy because Castroism went down in history by beating them and continues to deliver totalitarian blows. to scare away your fear.

Unlike Nelson Mandela, they will not have to endure long years in prison, as Mario Chanes de Armas or Gustavo Arcos endured, benefiting along with Fidel Castro and other assailants of the Moncada and Bayamo barracks, from Fulgencio Batista's amnesty.

That young people trained within the revolution have taken to the streets in thousands, demanding freedom and democracy, is the best proof of the failure of communism, which caused the deaths in prison of the young Pedro Luis Boitiel and Orlando Zapata, in separate hunger strikes. , but in the first case the world did not even flinch because the bearded men of Havana were charismatic and, in the second, the planet saw Raúl Castro as a reformist.

The Cubans imprisoned and awaiting trials without democratic guarantees are the seed of a new Cuba, where one Cuban does not stone another for thinking differently, the lines are a bad memory and decency and brotherhood preside over the nation, now wounded by shadows, bayonets, sticks and nonsense.

Once again, the government that recreated the protests abroad, using them as a weapon of ideological manipulation, has had to swallow the sword and endure the condemnation of the international community, horrified by the scenes and part of what we are learning about the hours after 9/11.

The apolitical, uninhibited and spontaneous nature of the rebellion stripped the regime, stripping it of its favorite pretexts: the United States and a paid opposition; None of the political prisoners of 9/11 acted at the behest of or paid for by Washington, but instead jumped due to injustice, repression, hunger and darkness.

When the dictatorship reacted by violating its own Constitution and laws, it only publicly confirmed its fear of just popular anger and its allergy to democracy, which it now insists on continuing to postpone, trying to buy silence and selective apoliticism with crumbs, blackmail and fear.

The other great proof of the Castro disaster is that there are Cubans selling medicines in the incessant and dynamic black market of Cuba, where chronic shortages generate an irregular market for consumer goods, especially food and medicines in the midst of the coronavirus health crisis, a wave that camouflages patients with dengue, zika, chinkunguya and cholera and chronic patients with other ailments.

A recent intervention by Díaz-Canel agitating the repression against drug sellers showed his impotence and emotional maladjustment in the face of a Cuba that baptized him as singao, people rarely make mistakes and even less so, when it comes to a population with great political culture, according to the official discourse.

What the official offensive will do is precisely make medicines more expensive on the black market, because the government lacks real possibilities to generate a short-term response in its supply network.

But we already know that Cuba is backwards: its Mandelas remain in prisons and the racists who impoverish and lacerate the country are the ones they have at their disposal from the Revolution Square, although they already have an expiration date.