Abel Prieto, president of the House of the Americas and former Minister of Culture, assured on Saturday on social networks that the late dictator Fidel Castro was loved “dearly” by Cubans.
In a tweet, Prieto promotes the Fidel Castro Ruz Center account on that platform, and says that it offers “an approach to the thoughts and work of an extraordinary man, dearly loved by patriotic Cubans and by many men and women worthy of all the planet".
In response to the official's words, several Internet users reacted with demonstrations of rejection. to the figure of Castro.
“No patriotic Cuban could be a Fidelista. They are antagonistic concepts. “Fidel destroyed the COUNTRY, stole the dream of our elders, condemned young people to migrate and ended the hope of the people under a totalitarian state,” commented one user.
“Fidel was and will be remembered as a TYRANT, a charlatan who destroyed a beautiful country with his absurd ideas, he put his ego before the comfort of the people, while he put his family and friends to live in mansions,” said another.
“Patriotic Cubans, you say. What a simple way to state the profound social contradiction that exists today in Cuba, what a low way to separate Cubans into categories that you yourselves have created for your benefit. You don't have that right. His tweet is a shame,” said a third user.
On social networks, many Cubans They have complained about the creation of the Fidel Castro Ruz Center, erected in a luxurious mansion in Vedado, in Havana, despite the crisis facing the country in terms of housing and the economy in general, today exacerbated by the context of the pandemic.
This construction occupies an entire block at the intersections of Paseo and 11 streets, to house a center for studying Castro's thought. The head of the Documentary Heritage Preservation Office, Alberto Alvariño, said that the facility will have a “political, public and equipped with high technology that stimulates interactive information” with “emphasis on children, adolescents and young people.”
It is known that the center houses a library, meeting and exhibition rooms and even its own printing press. In addition, it is protected by guards, internal and external perimeter security cameras.
For some, the existence of that facility contradicts the supposed last will of the dictator, who always tried to demonstrate that he led a humble life, that no public works of “personality cult” be made or bear his name.
The figure of Castro, who died in November 2016, has been repudiated mainly among the Cuban exile community. In April, a group created a campaign to remove the dictator's replica from the New York wax museum.
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