To the Government supporters - “You showed your trashy ways”

To the Government supporters: "You showed your trashy ways" / Rebeca Monzo
Posted on April 16, 2015

Rebeca Monzo, 15 April 2105 — The 7th (of April) arrived. The Summit of
the Americas in Panama and, with it, the invited and participating
delegations started to arrive in the Central American country. The
official Cuban delegation, one of the largest, had a good time
organizing and preparing, under the optics of the totalitarian regime,
making up a series of NGO officials, with the objective of making
themselves look like the only Cuban civil society.

The inconceivable and unacceptable thing was to send characters
well-known as loyal to the regime, pretending to make them pass as
members of this civil society. Among them, just to mention the most
known, was Dr. Eusebio Leal, the historian of Havana, Miguel Barnet,
President of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and Abel
Prieto, Adviser to President Raul Castro who, along with many others
chosen, lended themselves to serve as bullies in the famous meetings of
repudiation against the Cuban opponents, real members of nascent civil
society, insulting them and even sometimes, hitting them and preventing
them from leaving through the front door of where they were staying,
having to remove them safely from the hotel by the kitchen and the
backyard of the property.

These acts, absolutely unacceptable, have set a terrible precedent in
front of governments of other countries, the international press, who
have remained amazed before similar acts of marginality, vulgarity, and
lack of respect to the host country. As my friend Mary would say: "They
showed their trashy ways," confirming with their deplorable attitude
what the opposition from within the island has been condemning for years.

As if these abuses of power were not sufficient, they have tried to
monopolize Jose Marti, as if he doesn't belong equally to all of those
born on this battered island.

Translated by: BW

Source: To the Government supporters: "You showed your trashy ways" /
Rebeca Monzo | Translating Cuba -
http://translatingcuba.com/to-the-government-supporters-you-showed-your-trashy-ways-rebeca-monzo/