The Cuban writer Zoé Valdés demanded this Monday, in an interview with CiberCuba, that Cuba be the setting for the first Nuremberg against communism in history, and she called for a radical change that includes the prohibition of communism, constitutional emergency, and the establishment of a Cuban neocapitalism.
"We must think about firm liberation, radical change, demand and impose justice, call for the Nuremberg of communism, declare a ban on communism, enforce law and order, respect the constitutional emergency, and guarantee the economy and prosperity under a Cuban neocapitalism. All at once and swiftly," Valdés read from an article he authored that will be published soon in La Gaceta.
About who should be judged, she was straightforward: "The criminals, those with bloodstained hands, those who have committed murder", she stated, asserting that she had participated in the work of preserving documentary evidence outside of Cuba.
Valdés outright rejected a Venezuelan-style transition and warned that the first post-Castro government will inevitably fail. "I believe that the first government formed will collapse in a way you can't even imagine. We must bet on the government that comes after," he said, criticizing those who are already dividing ministerial positions before Cuba is free, an attitude he described as "childish."
The writer identified Alejandro Castro Espín as the true power in Cuba and described him as a direct disciple of Vladimir Putin. "Putin is the mentor of Alejandro Castro Espín, who governs Cuba with an iron fist," she stated, adding her well-known position on the need to physically eliminate the high-ranking officials of the dictatorship using drones.
About the arrival of the Russian tanker Anatoli Kolodkin in Cuba this Monday, carrying approximately 730,000 barrels of crude oil, Valdés interpreted the authorization from Trump as part of a broader negotiation related to the war in Ukraine. "This is a ship that is going to arrive, and as always, they are going to do what they do; they will take the oil for themselves," he stated.
The author, who has been linked for years to the defense of human rights, expressed concern about the lack of transparency in the negotiations between Washington and Havana, though she acknowledged that this opacity might be strategic. She warned that Trump and Rubio should not repeat the historical mistake of imposing another leader as was done with Fidel Castro: "They cannot impose another regime that starts with a pale face claiming that I am not communist."
Regarding forgiveness, she was adamant: "Forgiveness comes after justice, not before." She stated that she cannot forgive crimes such as the sinking of the tugboat 13 de Marzo, in which 37 people died, including ten minors, nor the massacre at the Canímar River.
Valdés also discussed her literary career, recalling that Fidel Castro mentioned her in a seven-and-a-half-hour speech as one of the three main enemies of Castroism, alongside Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Reinaldo Arenas, after her novel "La nada cotidiana," translated into over 43 languages, became a cultural phenomenon during the Special Period.
Among her projects for a free Cuba, Zoé Valdés announced her desire to create the largest network of bookstores in Latin America in Havana, for which she plans to seek the support of the Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele. She pointed out April 15 and 17 as symbolic dates that she would like to see as the beginning of liberation, in contrast to the betrayal suffered by Brigade 2506 at the Bay of Pigs.
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