MINREX charging, in July as in January

The late Castro regime has just rectified one of the most harmful attacks against emigration: the juicy extensions every two years of passports that only serve to enter and leave the hungry prison; but it has not yet clarified whether it will eliminate discrimination against exiled and regulated people and other issues of greatest interest to Cubans.

The oldest dictatorship in the West continues to bet on silent emigration in the face of its excesses and that pays religiously; promoting the figure of the active worm, who criticizes the US embargo, but does not dare to condemn the abuses against his brothers inside and outside of Cuba.

The olive green and guayaberada caste continues to see emigrants as a source of financing for the excessive Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) and maintainers of their hostage families; from the plan promoted by Colonel (r) José Boajasan Marrawi, former head of the Q-2 (Exile) department of the then General Directorate of Intelligence who; in turn, he had copied it from the Soviets.

Obviously, the announcement has a clear economic motivation, although it seems like a gesture towards the mistreated and supportive emigration, as the official chant says and will be amplified by the press paid for by the communist party.

The announcement is also political because it occurs on the eve of the Spaniard's first official visit. Jose Borrell, High Representative of Foreign Policy of the European Union (EU), in the middle of the bogging down of the quadripartite negotiation to free the more than a thousand political prisoners.

Nor should much be expected from the visit of a consummate Pirates of the Caribbean caresser, as is the case with most European socialists; always belligerent against Pinochet or Somoza and meek in the face of Castroism and its epilogue.

The main change is not only the elimination of extensions of such expensive passports, which will continue to be more expensive than those of countries like the United States and Spain, which charge administrative fees and not taxes-fines like MINREX; but the imposition on emigrants who left Cuba before January 1, 1971 and the equalization of the length of stay on the island of Cubans residing abroad and their foreign relatives (spouses and children).

Forcing Cubans who fled communism before the first month of the "Year of Productivity" (1971) was over to apply for a national passport and preventing them from traveling with that of their adopted country; It does not obey any constitutional mandate, but rather to alleviate the reduction in revenue due to the elimination of extensions and price reductions; although Havana does not offer data on the number of emigrants in this dilemma.

Some Cubans might think that the measure responds to a mere repressive interest; but they had to take into account that the medical power gave dental treatment to Alan Gross, an American computer scientist, who destroyed his packet.

The equalization of the length of stay of foreign spouses and children of Cuban emigrants is another trick to sell the circus ticket, because it aims to ensure that the Yuma relatives remain in Cuba for up to 180 days, spending thousands of dollars, while the tourists are not even there. awaits them; as demonstrated by the ongoing hotel "compaction".

While waiting for an announced Round Table that specifies the details of the official announcement, the following questions arise a priori:

1.- Will the government eliminate the figures of banished and regulated, which prevents the free entry and exit of Cubans who do not agree with the dictatorial theses?

2.- Will the authorities abolish the eight-year banishment against doctors and other medical professionals who renounce leonine contracts for the sale of qualified labor to foreign countries?

3.- Will the regime reverse the restrictions on travel abroad for medical specialists, stomatologists, health technicians and nursing graduates, as announced by the director of Human Capital of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP), Marcos del Risco del Río, in January?

3.- Will the government sign the Ibero-American Multilateral Agreement on Social Security, which would allow Cuban emigrants to add their years worked in Cuba to the calculation of their pension in host countries of that community of nations; and will you access the homologation of driving licenses?

4.- Will the harassment and aggression of embassies and consulates against Cuban and foreign opponents and activists?

5.- Will MINREX undertake a rational reduction of its excessive 125 embassies in the world; What until now do emigrants keep paying abusive consular fees? despite the fact that some work little and poorly.

If such a blessing were to occur for the impoverished Cubans; that would get rid of financing part of the useless bureaucracy, the anger of the rationed will be heard in Conchinchina because it is not easy to live in 5G and return to suffer hunger and blackouts in the country that advances incessantly, like a crab in a tank of honey, to the pain of those who still do not understand the benefits of bread with na'.