Castro Versus Castro

Castro Versus Castro / Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
Posted on September 10, 2014

As long as the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) exists in Cuba, this
secret and murderous organization, but in its turn legitimized by all
the secret and murderous organizations in the world, regardless of
ideologies or political rivalry in public (in private power always
supports power); as long as the life of every Cuban depends on the vile
will of another anonymous Cuban; as long as nobody questions this
complicity by a returning and cheerful exile, businessmen avid to be
ministers tomorrow, clergy blackmailed by their own flesh, and even by
an opposition without pressure platforms and much less urge for power;
as long as we just continue denouncing these clandestine citations from
G-2, instead of recognizing that it is an incessant civil war of the
State against its citizens, the Cuban nation has no chance of
regenerating itself.

The Transition Program, agreed by the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL
in Spanish) chaired by Oswaldo Payá, touched on the issue very early on.
There would be no decent dialog as long as they didn't open the archives
of Evil and its agents confessed their crimes before the democratic
justice that should come. As a consequence, State Security, by an order
that could have only come from the Castro family, touched Oswaldo Payá,
probably summarily processed in a Cuban place and executed in situ
parajudicially.

All Cuban workers and unemployed Cubans, when they show themselves to be
intelligent people, with desires for an active biography, have been,
are, and will be interviewed by the political police of my country. It
seems an exaggeration. Pardo's paranoia. But you in your cowardly heart
know well it's not so. You know well that you were also called by them
(whether you live on the Island or in its antipodes).

During my year and a half visiting the United States, I've been in
contact with all the generations of exiles or emigrants or whatever they
want to call themselves. A captive people that is no longer Cuban, since
they can't reside or participate in the social life of their previous
country. Recognized stars of the stage and visual arts have confessed it
to me. Geniuses of science have confessed it to me. Athletes or, to be
exact, high-performance ex-athletes, have confessed it to me. The
signature names of our music and literature also confessed it to me. G-2
frequents them all.

In principle, none of them has had any problem in Cuba. I knew many of
them from Cuba and none told me anything about this facet of
interlocutors of a Castroism of the catacombs, underground. My friends
live there (perhaps they've ceased to be so from now on), happy to be
almost protestors, while giving dozens of controversial interviews
outside, provided they accept the annual interview with the official who
looks after them, provided they follow the suggestions of their
respective agents. Low profile perverse Fidel-ity, that ranges from
threats thrown just as jokes, to the donation of a leg of mutton on the
part of the authority when one of our loved ones fall into bed and is
declared (gratis) as a terminal patient.

It's much worse than this. In a single family I have found vedettes and
executioners, poets and political experts, essayists and abusers. And
beware of naming us, you asshole, because I could even kill when it
comes to keep my family at peace. Castroism constitutes us today, is
ubiquitous and for that very reason, it's impossible to be located.
Castroism concerns us all, except for the original Castros, who are
about to die and their descendants will run away with their millions
elsewhere.

In these blackmails we are all the complicit of all. It's happening
right now. They tell me new examples through the social networks from
Havana. They ask me for advice and to remain silent. It'd be worse if I
ever mention their names and situations. Moreover, those who reside
abroad would sue me and put me to jail for moral damages and defamation
if I dare to speak.

We are infamous up to this point. We have lived our whole lives in the
times of Castro. We shall die, then, with the honors which correspond to
the horror of being us (and not the Castros) the true Castro's decrepit
but yet demonic clan.

*Translator's note: A reference to the chant children must repeat during
school morning assembly: "Pioneers for Communism, we will be like Ché!"

From Diario de Cuba

4 September 2014

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