Are Interference and Solidarity the Same?

Are Interference and Solidarity the Same? / Fernando Damaso
Posted on March 13, 2015

Fernando Damaso, 11 March 2015 — The words "interference" and
"solidarity" have been used interchangeability, according to the
political-ideological interests of those who employ them. As a result,
the United States practices interference in the internal issues of other
countries, and Cuba practices solidarity, which is nothing more than
interference under another name.

Just like the extinct Soviet Union did during the "Cold War": its
political interference in its "brother socialists countries" and, armed
interference in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan were acts of
solidarity or, as it was called then, "proletarian internationalism."

Cuba has practiced interference, disguised as solidarity, in Latin
America and Africa, organizing guerrillas and training their members. In
the latter it has also armed Angola and Ethiopia. Allende's Chile,
Nicaragua's Sandinistas and Noriega's Panama, were no strangers to Cuba.
Today it continues to interfere politically in every way, principally in
Venezuela. It repudiated the old "socialist brothers" of Eastern Europe
for changing their systems, and today our principal "brothers" are
Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua.

It is striking that the Venezuelan president repudiates American
interference and accepts Cuban, in addition to being its predecessor and
meddling in the internal matters of its neighbor countries, including
the US. It is a difficult and questionable position to speak of
sovereignty and independence, terms, of course, quite obsolete in the
globalized world with integration of countries in different
organizations: UNASUR, CELAC, ALBA, etc., to name just a few of the region.

I have the impression that, aside from the real interference of the
United Stats, the patriotic hysteria is due to the difficult situation
the country finds itself in, close to midterm elections, due to the
ineptitude of its leaders in solving the country's problems and
achieving stability and development.

In these complex situations it's recommended to look for a powerful
external enemy whom they can blame for all ills, to distract citizens'
attention from those truly responsibility and crushing the opposition
(the internal enemy). It's a very old formula and has been applied with
success in other countries and in Cuba with success, from whom the
Venezuelan government receives recommendations for interference, excuse
me: solidarity.

There is no doubt that both the United States and Cuba (in this case
during the last fifty-six years) have accumulated a voluminous record of
interference.

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