Thursday, June 7, 2012

Two Offspring of the Regime / León Padrón Azcuy

Two Offspring of the Regime / León Padrón Azcuy
León Padrón Azcuy, Translator: Maria Montoto

MARIELA AND ANTONIO CASTRO, DESCENDANTS OF THE REGIME

I don't imagine Cubans putting up with another fifty years of
"castrismo". I say this because lately one can observe an induced and
growing role by two offshoots of the Castro-Ruz family that don't
suggest they will distance themselves much from the actors of the past.

Incidentally, these two little kids of Daddy 1 & 2, have been planted in
sectors very sensitive to the public eye, which could be a strategy of
the regime, with the end result of assigning them as possible heirs to
the power acquired by Fidel and Raul, authors during this more than half
century of the oldest Communist dictatorship in Latin America.

For some time now, Dr. Antonio Castro –youngest son of Fidel– has been
promoted from the premises of Cuban baseball. An institution which, as
a physician for the Cuban team, placed him in the kingdom of the
national sport of the island, to wit showing off today the powerful
position of vice-president of the Cuban Amateur Baseball Federation
(Federación Cubana de Beisbol Amateur). An opening which permits Tony
to handle an extensive sector, to which he shows an increasingly visible
"benevolent" face.

The other case is that of sexologist Mariela Castro –daughter of current
president Raúl Castro– and director of the National Center for Sexual
Education of Cuba (Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual de Cuba), who
right now counts on the unlimited backing that has catapulted her into
the public arena, using a social program in defense of gay, lesbian,
bisexual, and transgender rights.

A great part of this social segment, so needy of God and not Mariela,
naïvely lends its shoulders so she can place her hands and elevate
herself on behalf of a supposed fight for the breach of taboos present
in Cuban society and the world in general. An open opportunity for
Castro Espín, with her a consistent and "dosed" publicity, so she may
scale positions and fame, not only within the island, but face to face
with worldwide public opinion, which she is starting to manipulate at
her whim with surprising aplomb.

At the start of this year, Mariela made a little jaunt to Europe, where
she caught the attention of the secular press after her skillful visit
to a neighborhood in the Dutch capital where prostitutes operate. Her
praise, for the conditions in which these women work, reminded us of the
declarations of her Uncle Fidel, who some years ago raised backyard
prostitutes to the skies, of course, in spite of having held since the
beginning of his revolution that this legacy engendered by capitalism
would be eradicated.

Recently the sexologist also traveled to the United States, a country
that gave her a visa without much thought other than to the great game
of the possible flexibility of the "blockade". From Californian
territory, Mariela stood out as a dangerous instrument of change that
moves between two powerful forces: the Cuban exile community and the
Communist dictatorship. The most reluctant of the first, reacted with a
laundry-list of diatribes that –reasonable or not– stamped her with an
excessive resonance that kept her in the headlines of the great North
American press, to whom she expressed –among other things– her support
for the reelection of Barack Obama. A message probably originating from
the aging Castro-Ruz dynasty which takes advantage of the situation to
sell Castro Espín as a leader with a progressive eye capable of
maintaining the Communist ideology of her family.

The daughter of the Cuban president. A "gifted" sexologist of
authoritarian and intolerant customs, presents herself in all plazas not
only as a defender of homosexuals, but also as the ultimate protector of
the politics of the regime headed by her father. Her irony goes so far
as to elude the touching realities at the levels of violence, sex and
alcohol present in Cuban society, to which we must add the use of an
emphatic language trying to "refute" the violations of human rights in
Cuba, lamentably substituted by sexual rights.

Her duplicity is made clear once and again when she won't move a finger
in defense of homosexuals who belong to Cuban civil society, who on
repeated occasions the political police have arrested and beaten in
order to stop their marches and actions, even if they are in support of
the public activities of Castro Espín. One thing is certain, if there
is something that this family knows how to do to the detriment of
others, it is the manipulation of techniques of disqualification to
exclude all those within the island who don't agree with the system.
Thus with the same "mastery" of Fidel and Raul, in front of
professionals at a San Francisco hospital during her recent trip to the
United States, Mariela Castro took it out on philologist Yoani Sánchez
whom she accused of being a mercenary paid by the empire, and branded
the Cuban exile community as a mafia, holding them responsible for
paralyzing a normalization between Cuba and the United States.

It is crystal clear, the Communist monarchy just like North Korea, is
betting on a leader who will vindicate the Castro surname. Apparently
one of its females (Mariela) possesses genes of the same stock. Her
familiar "fidelity", makes it a given that the regime expects to extend
itself even more.

Leonpadron10@gmail.com Blog: leonlibredecuba

Translator: Maria Montoto

5 June 2012

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