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Manolín "El Médico de la Salsa" published an extensive political allegory this Thursday on Facebook, in which he compares the Cuban dictatorship to a man who kidnaps a young woman, confines her, and mistreats her, and now, on his deathbed, asks for her help to survive.
The text, titled "The History of the Dictatorship is the Story of the Man Who Kidnapped a Young Woman," is the third public intervention by the artist in less than a week regarding the official campaign "My Signature for the Homeland," launched by the regime on April 19 in Playa Girón.
"The story of the dictatorship is like a man who kidnaps a young girl and locks her away, tying her up in his house, and she only sees and hears what he allows her to," wrote the singer.
In the allegory, the young woman ultimately resigns herself to her fate, but when the kidnapper falls ill and asks her not to leave him, she responds clearly: "Did you forget that this was never love, did you forget that this was always a kidnapping?"
Manolín then directly applied the metaphor to the political arena: "The dictatorship came to power through force and has held it hostage for life. It imposed a communist system on the people without their consent and violated all their rights, including the right to free elections, free expression, and even the right to movement."
The artist pointed out that the regime has prohibited the people from gathering, thinking differently, and protesting, and that they are repressed every time they try.
"Today the Dictatorship is terminally ill and asks the people to give their lives for their kidnapper, for their executioner," he wrote, before making his final call: "People of Cuba, do not save your executioner, it is the time for freedom".
This publication is part of the growing opposition to the campaign "My Signature for the Homeland," with which the regime seeks to collect millions of signatures before May 1 in support of the Revolutionary Government's declaration "Giron is today and always."
The day before, Manolín had already published another message titled "Don't Save Your Executioners", in which he directly pointed to Raúl Castro as the person responsible for the doctrine of the "war of the entire people," which would involve civilians, students, and children in the event of a possible confrontation with the United States.
On April 17, the artist had warned that "in Cuba, they don’t call the people for anything good" and outlined a historical pattern of the regime's military mobilizations: "For Angola war, for Ethiopia war, for Venezuela war, for Grenada war, for Ukraine war, and now in Cuba war as well."
Manolín is not the only one rejecting the signature campaign. The opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer also spoke out this Thursday: "No signatures in favor of the tyranny. They will fall soon."
Independent analysts rate the initiative as a smokescreen to divert attention from the economic crisis, blackouts, and shortages afflicting the island, a direct consequence of 67 years of communist dictatorship.
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