Gone are the days when the "Cuban revolution" (read the dictator Fidel Castro) shouted at Cuban emigrants "we don't want you, we don't need you."
As the 45th anniversary of that ruling approaches, which divided the Cuban family into "revolutionaries" and "counter-revolutionaries," the totalitarian regime established by the dictator is trying to be more diplomatic and is urging its "fellow nationals" abroad to be supportive and to aid Cuba and its people.
This is the most elegant way that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) finds to request water through gestures or to gather support for its domination project, which is based on terror, the violation of rights and freedoms, silence, simulation, and opportunism disguised as patriotism.
Without the backing of the Soviet "pipeline" from the 1980s, plunged into an unprecedented crisis triggered by the slow-motion collapse of a system that is contrary to the laws of market economics and to those that safeguard universal human rights, the Cuban regime has been performing geopolitical feats for decades to maintain its grip on power.
After parasitizing Venezuela and the surrounding ALBA regions, groveling as mourners across the world and among "supporters" in the area, after completing the most treacherous relinquishment of sovereignty into the hands of Vladimir Putin and opening the doors of Latin America to the interests of Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran, among other tyrannies, the heirs of the "continuity" led by Miguel Díaz-Canel have become oligarchs concerned about the disaster, misery, and exhaustion of their subjects.
However, once they secure their wealth, they realize that the public treasury is a barren wasteland that cannot support basic needs or public services. Sixty-six years after "regaining" sovereignty and expropriating business owners (from magnates to shoemakers), Cuba is a country devoid of productive fabric, lacking financial leverage and without the most basic infrastructure to foster entrepreneurship or ensure foreign investment.
What is left for the Cuban regime to parasitize and maintain a more or less stable inflow of foreign currency? It’s the remittances, that flow of money driven by family ties. They are left to exploit the division fostered by the old dictator, which has driven millions of Cubans into the diaspora, exile, separation, and the drama of emigration.
From the arrogant "we don't want them, we don't need them," the Cuban regime's leadership is now turning to continuity leaders with a different "sensitivity," such as the Deputy Director General of the United States Division of MINREX, Johana Tablada de la Torre, who in recent days has been inviting foreigners and Cubans from the diaspora to travel to the island to "take a dip."
"Now that Marco Rubio and Claver Carone are attacking remittances, travel, services, and businesses. Now that they are fixated on their failed dream of undermining Cuba, it’s time for those who care about this people to come and take a dip. Traveling to Cuba truly helps the Cubans and it will be fun to leave Narco Rubio wanting again," said Tablada de la Torre on her social media, which looks like those of a travel agency given all the "fun," beach, and tropical paradise posts.
So many lies and such cynicism ultimately impoverish the language and leave a foul taste in propaganda. The "continuity" has achieved the lowest intellectual level for its domination project, and the "Cuban revolution" has ended up equating its narrative to that of its epigones and puppets like Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.
While Tablada de la Torre calls to reverse the effects of the new U.S. administration's policies by inviting a "dive" into Caribbean waters, the Venezuelan dictator opens his arms to the immigrants deported by the United States, urging them to "sing, dance, and party."
"That's why migrants know that upon their return to Venezuela, they regain many things: respect as human beings, but also their right to party with their family and friends. How much does a migrant suffer over there, in Chicago, in New York, when they see their friends partying here on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and they are there, you know, suffering," said the puppet from Havana.
And he concluded, paraphrasing the cambolo of Santa Ifigenia, "yes we want them, yes we need them." More crude, but more direct than the spokespeople for "continuity" in the chancellery.
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