The time of the Cubans

The economic power of the hardworking and supportive emigration must and can become a democratic political force at the service of the Cuban nation, without tic authoritarian or exclusive; isolating the olive green and guayaberada caste and their accomplices, and making it clear to Europe and the United States that Cuba does not need subsidy for projects in the image and likeness of foreign governments; but demands freedom, full democracy, economic development, social justice and happiness.

Cuba is paying the price for the irresponsible renunciation of the majority of its children to assume the destiny of the nation, as something proper and necessary; Nothing should be expected from the current government because it was designed and imposed to preserve the right of stay of the families Castro-Ruz and Castro-Spin-Rodriguez.

The affront is so great that the Cuban government allows itself to sell the elimination of the extensions of the useless passport and a significant reduction in its cost in the United States; like the great renewal of the universe.

José Borrell, who arrives in Havana this Thursday, must and can turn European policy around in the face of the excesses of his dictatorial guests; But Cubans must harbor little hope of renewal, because Europe is experiencing its own drama and Cuba is a minor matter.

Europe has the bad habit of being guided by the criteria of the former colonial metropolises to address its relations with countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America; combining reasons and passions in a matter in which there is no room for sentimentality or complexes; only democratic coherence and effectiveness.

The Cuban opposition and activism should also change their policy and open themselves to dialogue with all the political forces of the European arc and abandon the harmful habit of only speaking with right-wing parties that - when they come to power - assume the State policy that their condition obliges

As if that were not enough, Europe - although it owes a lot to the United States because it helped free it from fascism; together with the Soviet Union, and implemented the generous Marshall Plan, it has always suffered from an anti-Yankee complex, which is only emotional, because in the end it ends up subordinating itself to Washington, as occurs in the Russian war against Ukraine.

NATO and the political and economic pacts between the United States and Europe leave little room for the imagination, but Cuba is the ideal little loophole for socialists, left-wing nationalists and European communists to play at will with late Castroism, which they spoil time and time again. ; as if alligators could be vegetarians.

Privately, some senior European officials assure Cuban opponents and activists that they understand their struggle and partially share their points of view; but then that sympathy whisper It never materializes in effective sanctions against Caribbean pirates, who have a record of impoverishment and inequality; scourges that contradict the ideology of Europe.

For years, the old Cuban dictatorship benefited from a notable majority of social democrats in European governments; always belligerent against Augusto Pinochet and other right-wing dictators and meek before the Caribbean leader, who deceived them time and again, with promises to undertake democratizing reforms, always postponed.

Europe, under socialist influence, believed that by betting on a critical dialogue with Havana, Fidel Castro would convert to democracy and did not even react to the then Cuban leader's call to Felipe González, with the simile of Sagunto and Numancia, during a private interview. in Brasilia, nor to the stoning of Robertico Robaina, which they attributed to his good harmony with his Spanish counterpart Abel Matutes.

José L. Rodríguez Zapatero, that anthropological optimist, swallowed the 75 prisoners of the Black Spring (2003) and their families; helped by the always cooperative Catholic Church; Some lucid political scientist should analyze this unnatural confluence of cassocks with hammers and sickles, Freemasons and socialists.

In fact, the allies of late Castroism in Europe do not read the proposals of the Cuban opposition, they only disqualify them in the style of the bread and butter propaganda apparatus; accusing proven democrats and former political prisoners of being allies of fascism and the extreme right, in that Manichaean reiteration of the supposed moral superiority of the sectarian redism.

The formula is copied from Spain, where President Pedro Sánchez's associates fantasize about Bolivarian hunger solutions and support every order they receive from Havana, such as the failed attempt to rent doctors during the coronavirus pandemic and promote approval in city councils and communities. autonomous resolutions condemning the US embargo and cooperation projects of dubious profitability for Cubans crushed by communist anger.

As long as the current circumstances do not change, European bishops, emperors and masseuses can now visit Havana; that they will only achieve a declaration of "frank and cordial dialogue" and various requests for euros to pay for the repression against Cubans.