The Broody Serpent’s Egg

The Broody Serpent's Egg / Angel Santiesteban
Posted on July 7, 2015

Ángel Santiesteban-Prats, 13 April 2015 — My colleague and friend Felix
Luis Viera has written a post about one of the most disgusting human
being I've ever had in front of me: Aleida Guevara.

Sometimes we ran into each other in our children's school on 62nd and
5th Avenue, in the Playa municipality. I talked about it once in a post
— I also described that facts I am giving you now — when a teacher told
me that "Guevara", as they call her, had been inquiring about my
relative. Fortunately, he is out of her reach and her revenge.

On that occasion I commented on the arrogance, pushiness and haughtiness
which she displayed and with which she manipulated those around her. In
fact, she acted like the school principal, while the actual principal
along with teachers nodded their heads in constant assent, fearful of a
complaint from that fatso with "commander pretensions," regardless of
the cause and reason, which could get them expelled from the school in
the blink of an eye. This woman, as brute as a mule, moved around that
institution like a triumphant guerrilla.

I cannot forget, it still disturbs me when it crosses my mind,
that later this "hairless bearded-one,"* living in Cuba for forty
years, had the mission of visiting Argentina, and when she returned
Fidel Castro received her at the airport terminal. It was broadcast as
an official event, and the reading of her horrendous speech with a lousy
Argentinian accent was the talk of the town. Fidel Castro could not hide
the discomfort in his face that such a repulsive human being caused him.

The truth is, as inferred by Felix Luis, that immense mass of fat of the
unbearable, contains no brain, and she confirms that in every
opportunity, such as when she told journalists she, "had suggested to
his uncle (President) Chavez to nationalize all TV channels and radio
stations, for his uncle Fidel had done it in Cuba and gave him good
results. "

I remember a friend who told me that, "There are people who are not
satisfied with being stupid, but they make sure everyone knows about
it." Bragging of being the daughter of a murderer — who signed hundreds
of executions by firing squads without fair trials — is only acceptable
for a shameless and intellectually weak person; but for others to
applaud her in public, it is a mistake that some will live with for ever.



Ángel Santiesteban-Prats

April 13th, 2015

Border Patrol Prison

Havana, Cuba.



Translator's note: During the Revolution the guerrillas acquired the
nickname "los barbudos" — the bearded ones — because they didn't shave.
Angel is using the feminine form of the noun — barbudas — and clarifying
that Aleida is a "bearded one without facial hair."

Source: The Broody Serpent's Egg / Angel Santiesteban | Translating Cuba
- http://translatingcuba.com/the-broody-serpents-egg-angel-santiesteban/