Panamá-Cuba - Summit of shame and absurdity

Panamá-Cuba: Summit of shame and absurdity
[14-04-2015 13:56:22]
Javier González
Cubdest.org

(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- At the very moment of his "crowning", the
Cuban despot Raúl Castro involuntarily made visible, between the lines,
that his empire and his main ideological allies, in spite of the
marketing publicity that favors leftist regimes, are not able to hide
their fragile clay feet.

1. On April 10 and 11 the 7th Summit of the Americas was held in Panamá,
with the participation of 35 presidents and heads of State. This leaders
meeting will be remembered as the Summit of shame and absurd, where Cuba
communist regime and its present dictator were openly applauded, while
11 million Cubans go on suffering oppression and misery at the prison
island. Not a word was also spoken with regards to the Venezuelan
people, who suffer under the yoke of a Pro-Cuban government.

2. It is painfully necessary to recognize that it hardly would be
possible to get so far regarding to pro-Castro ideas, without the
high-ranking endorsement given by Pope Francisco to the Obama and Castro
diplomatic approximation (ref. Armando Valladares, "The Obama-Francis
'Axis': Cuba, Sleights-of-Hand, and Confusion", January 04, 2015; in
this said article, the former Cuban politic prisoner states: "It is
extremely painful to say it, but the boot with which Castro continues to
crush Cubans on the island, now has a high-ranking endorsement;
unfortunately, the statements, deeds and gestures of Francis favor the
oppression of the Cuban people and a leftward shift in Latin America";
and Mr. Valladares concluded: "In this regard we might be faced with a
pontificate marked by confusion and even chaos, with disturbing
consequences for the political, social and Christian future of the
Americas").

3. Exiled Cubans and Venezuelan opponents made their presence in Panama
and manifested their just indignation. María Corina Machado, Venezuelan
opposition leader, reputed the dignitaries' attitude as "cruel
indifference" towards Cubans and Venezuelans suffering.

4. María Werlau, Cuban exile, Miami University professor, at the event
"The other face of the coin" held at Panama city, has been adamant:
"Unfortunately, this Summit serves as an unreal display for Cuban
dictatorship, that not only enjoys impunity, but, what is worse, is
applauded, while instills its venomous hegemony throughout the region".
Werlau classified as a "colossal shame" that the Americas' chiefs of
State accepted to participate in the "Cuban dictator crowning" and that
the one who "crowns him" is President Obama, of a country, the United
States, which "not long ago was the main defendant of liberty".

5. Cuba regime even displaced the so called "rapid response brigade"
members to Panama, who have attacked Cuban opposition members. In one of
the videos broadcasted by the "El Nuevo Herald", it could be seen the
Cuban colonel Alexis Frutos Weeden attacking Cuban exiles at a Panama
City square. As per "El Nuevo Herald" information, Frutos Weeden is a
high Cuban intelligence officer, who has managed for decades Cuba
espionage operations in several Latin America countries and, according
to exile ex-officers who knew him closely, today probably is the most
influent Cuban regime person acting in Venezuela.

6. Dictator Raúl Castro, in his "coronation" speech, that lasted for 40
insulting minutes, in spite of the 8 minutes limit for each Chief of
State, remained irreducible in his "socialism perfecting" and
"consolidation of the conquers" of the dreadful communist revolution
projects

7. Symptomatically, dictator Castro, in the same phrase where recognized
Brazil president Dilma Roussef regional "contribution" to the
revolutionary cause, included an allusion to the "offensive against
several region leftist governments" presently taking place. With this,
he seemed to make clear how much the communist regime worries not only
about the political and economical disasters of Venezuela and Argentina
pro Castro governments, but specially about the fragility of the
populist model of gigantic Brazil, that is facing strong popular
resistance. So, at the very moment of his "crowning", the Cuban dictator
involuntarily made visible, even more between the lines than in the
lines, that his ideological empire, including his main allies, in spite
of the marketing and publicity that favor leftists regimes, cannot hide
their fragile clay feet.

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