Ramiro's theorem

The commander of the revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez recently revealed that Cuba needs 250 million dollars annually to maintain its energy matrix and light the island as God intended; but since he doesn't have them, he recommendedsave electricity in any circumstance.

Valdés, who was a winemaker, a freemason and Minister of the Interior before becoming head of the Click patrol, knows that a country in the dark reduces commerce and industry; It diminishes brotherhood among Cubans embittered by impoverishment, inequality and blackouts and generates crimes.

Until a few months ago, the Cuban government - knowing that a blacked-out country is a human powder keg - avoided blackouts in residential areas, but even then it could not prevent the 11J rebellion because many Cubans, especially young people, know that the cause of all Its evils are the communism of cronies that the olive-green and guayaberada caste practices on board tasty BMWs that cost them nothing because it comes from the backs of the citizens.

Where could Valdés find the 250 million that late Castroism needs to sleep with one eye open and one closed? In Gaesa, which - in the midst of the coronavirus health disaster - spent 4,138 million US dollars, according to official figures, even knowing that tourists would not go.

The millions spent on luxury real estate assets in Havana, Varadero and Holguín would be enough to renew the outdated and ineffective Cuban energy matrix or to light the island for more than 16 years and would make unnecessary the evictions committed by Gaesa in the Holguín town of Ramón de Antilla, against defenseless and impoverished citizens.

The Cuban executive - who spends his life showing his face for Gaesa, in a rare reversal of roles, since it is usually officers and soldiers who defend the governments and not the other way around - weakly argued that many investments were programmed and imports contracted. that these tourism projects involved.

The excuse is easily removable because the coronavirus pandemic changed priorities on the planet and even ultra-liberal governments paralyzed investments in favor of public spending to help the victims of Covid-19, but the Minister of Economy, Alejandro Gil, in a start With priceless sincerity he said that Cuba would not increase social spending; although later reality was more stubborn than the neoliberal passion of the communist bureaucrat, who became silent since he described it as miraculous to still be in power.

Assuming the thesis of the Cuban government about the immobility of Gaesa's plans, which is neither accountable nor subject to verification by the General Comptroller of the Republic or the National Assembly, another source of financing for electrical generation and maintenance is the solidarity remittances from the attacked Cuban emigration, including telephone recharges; another billion-dollar business in the hands of Raúl Castro's blessed godchildren.

In 2020, despite the reduction of shipments by more than half, Cuban emigrants sent to Cuba - through different means - 2,967,000,000 US dollars, that is, almost twelve times more than the annual needs for electricity generation, according to Valdés' calculations.

There is money to meet the energy needs of the population, but late Castroism lacks the sense and sensitivity to understand that the exercise of power - even dictatorial power - implies serving the citizens and avoiding betting on the animated fantasies of Gaesa, which remains committed to ignoring the fear that the calamitous Cuban economy and its inability to pay provokes in the markets and seems to be betting on the crime that would imply selling at a bargain price, what will never be yours; although it seems.

Strange nationalist communism that displaces the Cuban in favor of business, and he still does not assimilate that an illuminated country is more profitable than a dark island in constant distress because when the power goes out, there is no water either and he must run to the refrigerators to save the19 foods? which guarantees the sixty-year-old Supply Book.