Commander Ramiro Valdes Menendez He proudly narrated the sabotage actions he committed against the dictator's regime Fulgencio Batista in a interview carried out in 2018 by the official journalist Arleen Rodríguez Derivet.
A fragment of it was shared this Friday by the Cuban activist Iliana Hernandez, who drew attention to the fact that Batista's opponents felt legitimate to carry out sabotage actions to express their rejection of the dictatorship; a legitimacy that they deny to the Cuban activists who today they demonstrate publicly against the totalitarian communist regime that prevails in Cuba through violence.
“If they could carry out sabotage, why now putting up a sign is terrorism?” Hernández asked in a post on his social networks.
“Ciro, Julio and I went out in Ciro's car to do sabotage, not in Artemisa. In Artemisa the only thing we did was throw a liter of chapapote at a large poster of Batista that was there, to tarnish his image,” Valdés Menéndez told the official journalist.
His story went even further, recognizing that they also attacked power lines to cause blackouts and spread social unrest against the dictator Batista, who had carried out a coup d'état in 1952.
The military riot, which only caused three deaths, ended up attracting the majority rejection of the civil society Cuban after the abolition of the 1940 Constitution and the suspension of political and congressional freedoms, the suppression of the right to strike, the reestablishment of the death penalty (prohibited by the Constitution) and the suspension of constitutional guarantees.
“We went out in Ciro's car, which his father had given him. Ciro, Julio and I were going to do some sabotage, throwing chains and things at the [electrical] lines. But outside of Artemisa, in Caimito, in Guanajay, Bauta…” recalled the one who later became Minister of the Interior (TO MENTION), sinister hand and notorious repressor of the regime established by the dictator Fidel Castro after defeating Batista through armed struggle.
An “apostle,” said Rodríguez Derivet de Valdés Menéndez, imbued with the indoctrination of the so-called “revolution” that, for more than sixty years, has built its presumed legitimacy as a “continuer” of the Cuban emancipatory feat led by José Martí.
Winner of the José Martí National Journalism Award for the Work of Life, Rodríguez Derivet boasts of being a close friend of Miguel Díaz-Canel, who congratulated the presenter of the Round Table for her distinction.
It is not the first time that both have shown their appreciation in public. In April 2023, the Cuban ruler sent a congratulatory message to Rodríguez Derivet on his birthday.
“Many congratulations on your birthday to our soul sister, to my companion at all times, to that person from whom it is impossible for us to be far away. In our family we love you infinitely,” Díaz-Canel said on his Twitter along with a photo of both.
In the interview of 2018, carried out after the appointment of Díaz-Canel as ruler by Raul Castro, the official journalist sought to legitimize the leader of the so-called “continuity” with the words of Commander Valdés Menéndez.
“You will already know Díaz-Canel for his actions. They are very organized people, very intelligent, with political maturity, with a lot of determination, with a lot of spirit, very demanding, very hard-working, which forces others to work at the same pace,” said the veteran leader of the regime.
“It also seems like it's a little romantic,” Rodríguez Derivet told him. “How?” Valdés Menéndez asked in astonishment. “Romantic, like you,” the journalist told him, to which the commander replied that “to be a revolutionary you have to be romantic, idealistic and in love.”
However, the totalitarian regime established by the “revolutionaries” was even harsher in its repression against its opponents and dissidents, whom it sentenced to long prison terms for exercising their power. right to free expression, while Valdés Menéndez and company always boasted of their terrorist actions against the Batista dictatorship.
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