State Sponsors of Forgetfulness

State Sponsors of Forgetfulness / Angel Santiesteban
Posted on May 22, 2015

The pernicious, failed, and pathetic ideologues of the Cuban
totalitarian regime want you to believe that they should never have been
on the "list of state sponsors of terrorism." Never mind that it's true,
or that there is evidence that proves their constant support, military
provisioning and training to all the guerrillas created in the Americas.

In particular, Cuba was added to the list for the help it offered the
guerrillas of El Salvador, which, moreover, it did not hide, and which
it then called "internationalism."

The Castros have that characteristic of never being wrong, nor of ever
declaring any political or economic action a failure. In more than a
half century of dictatorship—and a depressing and chaotic political
administration—they have never on any occasion recognized that they were
wrong, and as the Silvio Rodriguez song says (which party officials
treat as an anthem) "I die as I lived," so the Castros also do not now
recognize that at the time, according to the American criteria for
including these countries, Cuba met all the requirements.

But what is important for the Castros is maintaining the image of
victims, like the "kitten of Maria Ramos*," and officially declare that
they should never have been on that list, and therefore should not be
grateful for this gesture from Obama, and will constantly "bite the hand."
Ángel Santiesteban-Prats

April 14, 2015, Border Prison Unit, Havana.

*Translator's note: Based on the story of a prostitute, Maria Ramos, who
on being charged with the murder of her pimp, claimed it was her kitten,
not her, who had thrown the stone that killed him. (She didn't get away
with it.)

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